Qualia are on everyone's mind, quite literally. Qualia (singular quale) are an integral part of our lives. We cannot escape them, unless we are dead or in a coma and there are some that believe that we can't escape them even after death.
If you look up the meaning of Qualia, you usually get long worded explanations.
But in one sense, Qualia are very simple to understand. Look at the pictures below.
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Inside the brain Inside the mind
Both pictures convey the same information. The picture on the left uses numbers in place of colors, 1 for blue and 2 for brown. The picture on the left represents more accurately the process that is happening inside our brain and the colored picture is what we experience in our mind.
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