Daniel Dennett's heterophenomenological framework establishes that there is no coherent explanatory gap between functional role and qualitative character once we reject the Cartesian assumption of a privileged introspective inner theater.
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The idea that there's a special private 'viewing room' in your mind where only you can see your thoughts and feelings, like watching a movie of your own consciousness.
explanatory gap(Central concept in anti-physicalist arguments)
The alleged in-principle inability to intelligibly explain how consciousness arises from physical processes
functional role(The criterion by which mental states are identified on the analytic functionalist view.)
A pattern of causal relations that an internal state bears to stimulations, behavior, and other internal states.
qualitative character(as used in metaphysics)
The specific qualities or features that make something what it is—its color, shape, texture, and so on. Two things have the same qualitative character if they look and feel completely identical.