(March 12, 2016 at 10:49 pm)Chas Wrote: If you use "the internal and subjective component of sense perceptions, arising from stimulation of the senses by phenomena" as your definition of qualia, what is in need of explanation?
Well, first of all, ideas do not meet that definition. Second, this is like saying God is "whatever made the universe able to exist:" it means nothing. Third, qualia are what it's like to experience something-- the mechanism of experience is irrelevant to the meaning of the word.