Full Idea
Properties of conscious experience, the so-called qualia, are not dangling appendages to material states and processes but intrinsic ingredients of those states and processes.
Gist of Idea
Qualia are not extra appendages, but intrinsic ingredients of material states and processes
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], Intro)
Book Reference
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.14
A Reaction
Personally I am inclined to the view that qualia are intrinsic to the processes and NOT to the 'states'. Heil must be right, though. I am sure qualia are not just epiphenomena - they are too useful.