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That may be so (though I agree with Peter, that reduction and elimination are different), but regardless Dennett's actual argument is not a reduction of qualia to more simple terms. He argued (mostly on conceptual grounds) that the idea of qualia is incoherent. Even if elimination (in the manner of phlogiston) were reduction, Dennett's argument wouldn't be a case of either.
OK, I think I agree with this view of Dennett. I hadn't read the book in a while, and I conflated his reduction of consciousness (which is, I think, a genuine reduction) with his explanation of qualia.