[amanaplanacanal]

This is exactly my take also. Qualia and consciousness are the same thing. I have it, other humans appear to have it, other mammals appear to have it, LLMs don't.

[fssys]

you think qualia are the soul then!

[amanaplanacanal]

I don't know what you mean by the word soul. I associate it with dualist religious thought. But maybe you mean something else?

[trick-or-treat]

Except that you don't know LLMs don't. For all we know we're torturing them.