Qualifying qualia through the Skyhook Test

If we are to preserve qualia, one possibility is to take the current academ ic, philosophical, and theoretical notion less seriously and current natura l science and some pre-theoretical intuitions about qualia more seriously. Dennett (1997) is instrumental in showing how ideas of the intrinsicalness and privacy of qualia are misguided and those of ineffability and immediacy misinterpreted. However, by combining ideas of non-mechanicalness used in contemporary natural science with the pre-theoretical idea that qualia are special because they are unique, we get a notion of qualia that is acceptab le to naturalistic philosophy. The notion of unique qualia is not opposed t o the idea that some of the characterizations of qualia have to be qualifie d. It is the folk-philosophical, academic, notions of theoreticity and conc eptuality that have to be modified.