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A promising approach is to characterize qualia by their relational structures rather than their intrinsic nature. Assuming the structure of qualia is characterized by the geometry of neural representations, we posit that this geometry is fundamentally organized by symmetry. We propose that the principal bundle, induced by a symmetry group G acting on a neural network\u2019s state space, is the essential mathematical object uniquely characterizing this geometric structure. The core mathematical principle is that, for a G-equivariant network, its state space partitions into a quotient space Q and orbits induced by the group G. This framework reveals a three-level hierarchy for characterizing qualia. First, the choice of symmetry group G constrains the fundamental nature of the qualia modality (e.g. vision vs. audition). Second, we identify a qualia signature with a point in the quotient space Q (e.g. \u201ccat\u201d), representing the invariant identity of a percept. 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