Abstract

In this paper I show an aporia which both a subjectivist view and a functionalist view of qualia have in common, and try to change the view of qualia in order to solve the aporia. The aporia of the qualia problem is this: as long as we take a subjectivist view or a functionalist view, qualia must shift either into something other than qualia, or just into nothing. A solution of the aporia which I try to present is: qualia is neither something nor nothing, but an uncom-pleted absence.