Personally I think it’s silly as hell. Qualia is obviously a biological component of experience… Not some weird thing that science will never be able to put in to words.
I’ve been listening to a lot of psychology podcasts lately and for some reason people seem obsessed with the idea despite you needing to make the same logical leaps to believe it as any sort of mysticism… Maybe I am just tripping idk
I feel like there has to be some sort of cutoff - surely there’s a certain number of neurons where all you have is basic stimulus/response behavior, but I’ll confess to not knowing what it’s like to be a nematode.