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Neuroscientists such as Gerald Edelman, Antonio Damasio, Vilayanur Ramachandran, Giulio Tononi, Christof Koch and Rodolfo Llinás argue that qualia exist and that the desire to eliminate them is based on an erroneous interpretation on the part of some philosophers regarding what constitutes science.Damasio, A. (1999). The feeling of what happens. Harcourt Brace.Edelman, G., Gally, J. & Baars, B. (2011). Biology of consciousness. Frontiers In Psychology, 2, 4, 1-6.Edelman, G. (1992). Bright air, brilliant fire. Basic Books, p. 115.Edelman, G. (2003). Naturalizing consciousness: A theoretical framework. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 100, 9, 5520-5524.Koch, C. (2019). The feeling of life itself. The MIT Press.Llinás, R. (2003). I of the Vortex. MIT Press, pp. 202–207.Oizumi, M., Albantakis, L., & Tononi, G. (2014). From the phenomenology to the mechanisms of consciousness: Integrated information theory 3.0. PLOS Computational Biology, 10, e1003588.Overgaard, M., Mogensen, J. & Kirkeby-Hinrup, A. (Eds.) (2021). Beyond neural correlates of consciousness. Routledge Taylor & Francis.Ramachandran, V. & Hirstein, W. (1997) “Three laws of qualia. What neurology tells us about the biological functions of consciousness, qualia and the self.” Journal of consciousness studies, 4 (5-6), pp. 429-458.Tononi, G., Boly, M., Massimini, M., & Koch, C. (2016). Integr.ated information theory: From consciousness to its physical substrate. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 17, 450–461.