His thought experiments give a good illustration of the "hard problem" of consciousness. A) It's not rationally possible to explain qualia in terms of quantita

His thought experiments give a good illustration of the "hard problem" of consciousness. A) It's not rationally possible to explain qualia in terms of quantitative phenomena. We can draw correlations using empiricism but they are ontologies fundamentally inconsistent with one another. B) Intelligence does not imply experience. One of the biggest problems here is conflation of the two. An amoeba has intelligence with basic consciousness of its surroundings. That does not mean it has experiences.