[loandbehold]

Is there ANY evidence that "qualia" is a real thing? That sounds like vitalism that was debunked a long time ago.

[jakelazaroff]

I mean… you experience stuff, right? "Qualia" is the word for that. We can tweak the definition, but I think it's pretty obvious that "subjective, conscious experience" [1] does in fact exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia

[nathan_compton]

I have some basic observational evidence that it does exist and presumably you do as well. I do suspect that we are thinking about it in some fundamentally wrong way, but I reserve judgment.