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qualia 

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1. Recognizable qualitative characters of the given.--C. I. Lewis (1929)
2. Parts of experiential knowledge, i.e., that which can only be known through experience.
3. The introspectively accessible, phenomenal aspects of our mental lives.--Stanford Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
4. Simplest forms of experience.
5. Outlets of the flow of experience (from consciousness).
6. Finest levels of (mental) qualities.
7. Finest levels of feeling.
8. Junction points between being and experiencing.
9. Starting points of becoming.
10. Introspectible and seemingly monadic properties of sense datum, but universal, not particular.
11. 'Quale' is to 'quality' as 'quantum' is to 'quantity'. (Etymologically)
12. Subjective qualities of conscious experience.
13. Subjective sensations. --Ramachandran & Blakeslee (1998)
14. Orderly modes of consciousness.
1. Philosophers and scientists alike have pondered qualia for a long time without resolution.

2. AI researchers wonder whether machines that pass the Turing Test would experience qualia, and whether they would even need to do so.

3. It is difficult to deny the existence of qualia.

4. Our failure to define qualia also makes people wonder if color are experienced differently by each person--how can we tell if some people see colors inverted, since they would still call roses red and grass green?

5. Qualia could occur only in the presence, interfacing the future and the past. You can remember the information about events, but not the actual feeling you had at that time. You could remember, for example, having been angry at receiving a parking ticket--but this is information not actually the feeling, since the police officer also remembers you being angry. If the memory makes you angry, then your present anger is a new experience--not the original experience. But this is good; otherwise, we could recall qualia such as pain--and headaches might never end.
qualia by hyperlinguist December 17, 2006
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Qualintivity 

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A mixture of both quality and quantity.
Dude, that CorporateDrives.com website is all about qualintivity. Such quality products in bulk!
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qualiah

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Qualiah is an amazing person that has lots of friends. She doesn’t go to them they come to her. She will be there for you no matter what, and she cares sometimes a little too much. Even when times get hard Qualiah will be right there for you. She’s a complete smart ass, kinda cute in that really weird way, shy but yet one of the loudest people you know, the kind of girl that would be there for you as long as you need her, and even if you hate her, always is up to something strange, a complete handfull but she always knows how to make someone smile. this is the kind of girl that would make any guy happy.
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Quagina 

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qualitay 

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The word 'quality' is often mis-used to mean 'of good quality' although its true meaning is neutral (good quality, poor quality, etc.)

'Qualitay' is a deliberate misspelling and mis-pronunciation of the word 'quality'. It is used jokingly to mean 'good' -- in other words it absorbs the incorrect meaning assigned by many people to 'quality'.
I think the new iMac G5 looks qualitay.
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qualitacious

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She's waiting for a qualitacious man.
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