one way to look at "qualia" is that it's the subjective experience of object-makers making objects. the world isn't pre-grouped into objects for us. it's really a soup of quarks and shit, and it's our job to cleave things like forks, penguins, and corporations from that soup. naming "qualia" is an attempt to cleave the making-of-objects into its own object. and I think in doing so we hit a sort of philosophical end-stop. like we're trying to reach an unreachable part of our backs to scratch. we're making an object out of object-making and entering a landscape of ideas without our precious object-making abilities