Qualia theory, which is essentially a broader theoretical base for utilitarianism, is a theory of suffering, a theory which reifies suffering in the most general sense. It is right to do so as against any position that treats suffering as an illusion, but in treating it as made up of a-tomic nuggets it goes too far the other way. It is an intermediate, a catalyst, real in relation to the illusory, in fact its scourge, but finally also illusory in relation to reality.