Nominull comments on Suffering - Less Wrong
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Could you elaborate on your reasons for doubting that a rock has qualia?
Qualia appear to require complicated internal structure: knock out a certain brain area and you lose some aspect of it.
I figure it's symmetric. It's just as likely a rock has good qualia as bad qualia in a given situation. Humans are more asymmetric. If they have bad qualia, they tend to stop doing whatever it is, so you can tell they have bad qualia.