alt Hacker News>In the same way my digital thermometer doesn't have quaila. LLM's do not either.
The hard problem of consciousness doesn't support either of those statements, and instead illustrates why they can't confidently be made.
So it's confusing because you seem to recognize that qualia cannot currently be measured, while also making a statement measuring qualia.
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I recognise it because I have had the subjective experience of 'redness'. So whether it exists for any other human I cannot say but I am certainly 100% certain it exists for me. However I should add that I can't fully define what this experience is. Though people say the same of love!
I'll appeal to authority in that scientists and philosophers today in all of the worlds universities and those in the past have determined to understand this phenomenon. That it exists is a given, what it is, is more murky. Again it's not me saying this.
We don't know what's inside a neutrino, and it's really hard to experiment with them, but we kind of know why and how they interact with different things. We're able to form theories, research programs, and sometimes even discovered honest-to-god facts, due to our inclusion of such fields in the scope of research, even though we don't know all there is to know about particles/fields or quantum mechanics.
Similarly, qualia is ill-defined, but we can't even start talking about it or refining it until we've at least given it a label and drawn a large circle on the map showing where it might be. Criticisms extending past that must also consider that "life" and "intelligence" are just as ill-defined, and that throwing all of those definitions out leaves us with very little to talk about or probe.