This is true, but I fail to see how something like qualia ( the subjective experience ) necessarily matters. The thing I find interesting in the current LLM co

This is true, but I fail to see how something like qualia ( the subjective experience ) necessarily matters. The thing I find interesting in the current LLM conversation is how much it’s opened up conversations around “what is knowing? What is consciousness?” Does it matter, not philosophically but utility-wise, if something can give the illusion of intelligence or “knowing”? And to go on something you said about taste— this is the age-old conundrum that still applies to humans, not just LLMs. I will never know if the color green to me is the same color as it is to you; our subjective experience may be entirely different, yet we both use the same language to describe what we experience. And that language does the job just fine, even without the experience itself factored in.