RichardKennaway comments on Confused as to usefulness of 'consciousness' as a concept - LessWrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 15 July 2014 11:43:31AM 6 points [-]

"Quale" is simply a word for "sensation" -- what the word used to mean, before it drifted into meaning the corresponding physical phenomena in the nerves. A quale is the sensation (in the former sense) of a sensation (in the latter sense).