Exactly. Basically an inward looking sense, with it's own qualia. Of course the only way to know if someone/something else has a similar subjective experience

Exactly. Basically an inward looking sense, with it's own qualia. Of course the only way to know if someone/something else has a similar subjective experience of something as ourselves is to ask them, so there's always going to be wiggle room for people who don't want to believe that a future AI reporting conscious experience really is conscious in the same way that they are.