How to Use quale in a Sentence

quale

noun
  • But consciousness is also a private sensation or feeling — what philosophers call qualia.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Hinton makes qualia sound like strange little objects hidden inside the head, then replaces them with a cleaner functional account of perception.
    Andréa Morris, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • The colors, pains, pleasures, smells, tastes and sounds, the what-it’s-like of being conscious, are not private inner bits and blobs that philosophers call qualia, floating in a theatre of the mind.
    Andréa Morris, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • Dennett devoted his res cogitans to undermining the idea of some first-personal, qualia-like, other substance.
    Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The hard problem is explaining how and why beings have conscious, subjective experiences at all (qualia in philosophical parlance).
    Kevin Dickinson, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025

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