For someone who isn’t confident of understanding qualia theory, you stated it quite well. Near the end it could use a tweak, I think: “my conscious experience in its entirety isn’t essential to my knowing that the apple is red. The phenomenal quality of the experience is just an effect …”
This leaves the verbal issue open, of whether perceived facts as well as phenomenal qualities count as part of “conscious experience”.
For someone who isn’t confident of understanding qualia theory, you stated it quite well. Near the end it could use a tweak, I think: “my conscious experience in its entirety isn’t essential to my knowing that the apple is red. The phenomenal quality of the experience is just an effect …”
This leaves the verbal issue open, of whether perceived facts as well as phenomenal qualities count as part of “conscious experience”.