the piquant qualia of a lived, albeit bizarrely lived, experience

argue that aesthetic experience--or what they more often call inner sensation, or the experience of "qualia", or "consciousness" tout court--doesn't really exist

We are different, you and I, and the qualia of our consciousnesses are as divergent as two stars at the ends of the universe.

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