How are you going to fool yourself, qualitatively and subjectively, that you have a mind if you don't have something capable of qualia in the first place? I'm

How are you going to fool yourself, qualitatively and subjectively, that you have a mind if you don't have something capable of qualia in the first place? I'm not trying to argue for some kind of an immaterial soul, or claiming that all of psychology is scientific (many theories, at least as it appears to a layman, aren't). And sure, a durable personality and various other mental models we have might be illusions to varying degrees. But if the lower-level immediate experiences are treated as a real (if emergent and somewhat culturally dependent) thing, I don't see why higher-level mental phenomena such as the common need for a durable sense of self couldn't be treated as real as well.