What's the structure of the hopelessness and anguish expressed in Moby Dick? What can you look at that would be a reasonable expression of the twists and turns of Dune?
Paintings can express abstract concepts as well, but I think they're hard pressed to express multiple convoluted ones with cause-effect mechanics succinctly.
They may be ineffable to computers (at this time), but they are not ineffable to us. We can ascribe meaning to these words, and programming languages do the same thing. They provide a language with common meanings that both a compiler and humans can understand.
btw, Qualia is a meaningless concept to me, not ineffable; concepts definitely are. On the other hand, some philosophical ideas might just be plain wrong and thus not possibly translate to code that had to be logical (unambiguously). Why wouldn't there be logic behind?
> Quale: A property considered separately from a thing having that property
I just don't like the word. Why not call it property?
> qualophile: A cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.
That's new to me, but yeah, when I hear the term it is used to describe properties that are not discretely measurable and to me those might as well just not exist, or wrong as far as that relates to the grand parent post.