Full Idea
One of the crucial premises of the antireductionists - concerning the intrinsic, nonrelational, metaphysical simplicity of our sensory qualia - is a question-begging and unsupported assumption.
Gist of Idea
It is question-begging to assume that qualia are totally simple, hence irreducible
Source
Churchland / Churchland (Recent Work on Consciousness [1997])
Book Reference
Churchland,Paul and Patricia: 'On the Contrary: critical essays 1987-1997' [MIT 1998], p.163
A Reaction
This is a key point for reductionists, with emphasis on the sheer numbers of connections involved in a simple quale (I estimate a billion involved in one small patch of red).