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== Qualia as aspects of conscious experience ==
Some publications define qualia in reference to [[aspects]] of mental lives. This is the case, e.g. in Michael Tye's SEP entry,<ref name="SEPQualiasepqualia">Tye, Michael, "Qualia", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), [https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/qualia/ Link]</ref> where he states that "philosophers often use the term ‘qualia’ to refer to the introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives," where the term aspect arguably may refer to "any specific feature, part, or element of something"<ref>[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]].
Some publications define qualia as ''simple constituents'' of [[phenomenal consciousness]] or [[conscious experience]]. In a few cases they are conceived of as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_formula atoms] of the latter.
In some cases, they are claimed to constitute the [[phenomenal character]]. According to thos use of the term, qualia "together make up the phenomenal character of the experience".<ref name="SEPQualiasepqualia"/>
== Qualia as first order approximations ==
