TAG comments on The intelligence-sentience orthogonality thesis

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But in what follows we aim not to Quine (explain away) qualia …

“Quining means some thing stronger than “explaining away”. Dennett:

The verb “to quine” is even more esoteric. It comes from The Philosophical Lexicon (Dennett 1978c, 8th edn., 1987), a satirical dictionary of eponyms: “quine, v. To deny resolutely the existence or importance of something real or significant.”