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Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 September 2012 11:22:56PM 1 point [-]

Ah, I see. Yeah, agreed that what we are calling qualia here (not to be confused with its usage elsewhere) underlie a class of practical problems. And what you're calling a qualia translation function (which is related to what EY called a non-person predicate elsewhere, though finer-grained) is potentially useful for a number of reasons.