No I get the impression you really want to say qualia, but don't want the backlash.

What would the backlash be? Has “qualia” fallen out of favor among people who think being asleep == not being conscious? Frankly given that opening confusion I am surprised you’ve heard the word qualia.

Qualia is magical thinking. It implicitly assumes a Cartesian theater, and leads to infinite regress.

And yet here I am having continuous, direct interaction with subjective experience and yet I have zero evidence for a Cartesian theatre… simply claiming one implies the other is not the same as proving it.

> with subjective experience

So you claim. I can prompt an LLM to do the same.

Correct, you have no way to verify my claims, which is exactly my argument. Thanks!

It's like playing chess with a pigeon. My fault really.

Haha, indeed :)