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As I fall in the Dennett camp (qualia seems like a ridiculous concept to me), perhaps you can explain what qualia feels like to you, as the grandparent did about the subjective experience of consciousness?
"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).