“In the kitchen behind, 'washing up' after dinner, was his helpmate, Mrs. quale.”

“Mrs. quale might well wonder how all the lot could be stuffed into the pleasure-van.”

“But the case stands otherwise when the quale is taken as a datum for inference.”

“The elusive subjective conscious experience — the redness of red, the painfulness of pain — that philosophers call qualia?”

“And he points out that exactly the same problem applies to how the homunculus would perceive its own qualia.”

“Nonetheless the type-type identity theory has enjoyed a recent if modest resurgence at least with respect to qualia or qualitative conscious properties.”