> All definitions seem to ultimately boil to "what I feel", which is vacuous. It is entirely possible that qualia aren't physically real in any sense, and are n

> All definitions seem to ultimately boil to "what I feel", which is vacuous. It is entirely possible that qualia aren't physically real in any sense, and are nothing more than a state of the system that the system itself sets and queries according to some internal logic based on input and output. If so, then an LLM having an internal self-model that includes a state "I feel heat" is qualia as well. Is it "possible"? Absolutely. However, I have no means by which to measure, as you say, where at least with humans and animals I posit that their shared behaviors do indicate the same feeling, so I have some proof. With an LLM, the output is a probability distribution. Moreover, if it is as you say it is, then computers have qualia as well, which is scary because we would be committing a pretty ethically dubious 'crime' (at least in some circumstances). Again, I just don't see it. Anything is possible, as I said, but not everything is as likely, by my estimation. And yes, that is entirely how I feel, which is as real as anything else.