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The term ''qualia'' (singular 'quale') is used in many different ways to date.Let's This page aims to distinguish the characterizations in terms of examples, the types of terms that are being defined,<ref>Can one call this the "logical structure" of the term? - Probably not, please correct.</ref> and the properties or features ascribed to qualiavarious uses.

Many publications define the term using refer to qualia as defined in terms of examples. E.g.:* Colours ("seeing the redness of red", etc.)* Using Referring to the [[what it is like to be]] referenceconception* "raw Raw feels"* Qualia are "introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives" <ref name=SEPQualia>Michael Tye in SEP Entry on Qualia.</ref>

== Logical structure Qualia as aspects of conscious experience ==Various uses seem Some publications define qualia in reference to appear:* Properties of [[phenomenal consciousnessaspects]]* Properties of [[mental states]]lives. This is the case, e.g. in Michael Tye's SEP entry,<ref name="SEPQualia/">* Simple constituents/peroperties of phenomenal consciousness (going as far as Tye, Michael, "approximationsQualia" , The Stanford Encyclopedia of phenomenal consciousnessPhilosophy (Spring 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.)* States of phenomenal consciousness* Sometimes they are claimed to constitute the , [[phenomenal characterhttps://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/qualia/ Link]] (</ref> where he states that "that together make up philosophers often use the term ‘qualia’ to refer to the introspectively accessible, phenomenal character aspects of our mental lives," where the experienceterm aspect arguably may refer to "any specific feature, part, or element of something"<ref name=SEPQualia>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aspect#English]</ref>.

A similar route is followed in<ref>Kleiner, Johannes. "Mathematical Models of Consciousness." Entropy 22.6 (2020): 609.</ref>, where qualia are defined as aspects of conscious experience which are [[non-collatability|non-collatable]]. == Properties of features ascribed to qualia Qualia as properties ==Different studies endorse different Qualia are often defines as properties of [[phenomenal consciousness]] or properties of [[mental states]]. == Qualia as simple constituents ==Some publications define qualiaas ''simple constituents'' of [[phenomenal consciousness]] or [[conscious experience]]. Here is In a first list few cases they are conceived of as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_formula atoms] of properties that the latter. In some cases, they are being ascribedclaimed to constitute the [[phenomenal character]]. According to thos use of the term, qualia "together make up the phenomenal character of the experience". <ref name="SEPQualia"/> == Qualia as first order approximations ==In philosophical contributionsthe recorded lecture underlying<ref>Metzinger, Thomas, ed. Grundkurs Philosophie des Geistes. Mentis., 2007.</ref>, these properties Thomas Metzinger discusses that qualia as ''approximations'' of [[phenomenal consciousness]] or [[consciousness]]. == Qualia as states ==Some authors define qualia simply as states of [[phenomenal consciousness]]. = Properties of features ascribed to qualia =Qualia are used variously claimed to analyse certain claimshave many different properties, efeatures or key characteristics. E.g. whether physicalism can , they are claimed to be true, whether there is an explanatory gap, etc.:

* qualitative in character

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