Why does this subject interest philosophers? It's like creation interesting theologians. The interest exists only because the scientists don't (yet?) have the answers.

How do the sensory nerves talk to the consciousness? Do they create a message that travels along neurons, or do they create a "field" that interacts with a field created by the neurons that create consciousness? These are matters of fact, not opinion, although we can hold opinions until the facts are in.

Despite the computer geeks' claim that there is no noun that can't be verbed, the opposite is actually how things work; most nouns are reifications. An organism experiences its existence. We name the experiences and turn them into "things," but experience has no physical existence. Let's suppose that the sense organs do create a field of some sort that the consciousness can interpret. That field exists, but the organism merely experiences the interpretation. What is the quale in that scenario? Is it the field, which exists, or the experience of it, which is simply a reification? Does the answer to "Do qualia exist?" depend on the answer to this question?