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Perhaps it would be instructive to think for a moment about why these people, who probably experience the world just as well as you do, have come to accept proposed explanations of consciousness.
It would also be nice if you'd engage these proposed explanations instead of saying that anyone who disagrees is in denial.
Dennet clearly thinks a lot about why other people think that qualia are real things that must be explained. He also makes it a point of engaging these intuitions and showing that they often fall apart under scrutiny rather than assuming that somehow they all must be correct.
Indeed -- the debate runs and runs, nearly two decades on from the original book. I do not think the conflict will be resolved soon (and if it is, it won't be in the pages of philosophical journals).
Yes, and that is good.
What falls apart is the explanations people try to give of the experience.