From PhilPapers forum Philosophy of Mind:

2009-04-22
The 'Explanatory Gap'
Reply to Stevan Harnad
Stevan, while you might be right (and I think you are) that many spurious and unhelpful distinctions have been drawn in the literature, it simply is not the case that the term 'feeling' can cover for all of them.  A first person point of view necessarily entails a spatial reference frame centered in the head of an individual, and a temporal reference frame centered in the psychological present.  These structural features of the phenomenological world are not addressed at all by use of "feeling".  In general, a lot of philosophical discussion of late has used a terribly anaemic view of experience that has almost been reduced to the sensation of redness and pain.  My phenomenological world of experience is big, rich, and wholly inadequately described by this qualia talk.  We need to be careful in our choice of terms, but we can not sweep it all under the carpet either.