Iwato, Atsushi: Qualia as the Residue of Linguistic Articulation

This paper attempts to reinterpret qualia not as mysterious entities that lie beyond physical explanation, but as phenomena arising from the structural relationship between consciousness and language. Traditionally, qualia have been described as the qualitative character of subjective experience, such as “what it is like to see red” or “what it is like to feel pain.” However, this understanding often car ries the risk of treating qualia as belonging to a special domain beyond physical or functio