qualia
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(noun) in philosophy: a property (as redness) considered apart from things having the property; individual instances of subjective, conscious experience
illness is not a metaphor or a study but a phenomenon unfolding in (and on) real bodies in real rooms. Its qualia, the crinkly paper hospital gown and metallic adrenaline taste, the mutable and inexpressible shades of pain, demand articulation because they matter
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