My thinking was that since everything it knows is something that was expressed in words, and qualia are thought to not be expressed fully in words, then qualia aren’t part of what it knows. However, I know I’m on shaky ground whenever I talk about qualia. I agree that one can’t be sure it doesn’t have qualia, but it seems to me more like a method for tricking people into thinking it has qualia than something that actually does.
My thinking was that since everything it knows is something that was expressed in words, and qualia are thought to not be expressed fully in words, then qualia aren’t part of what it knows. However, I know I’m on shaky ground whenever I talk about qualia. I agree that one can’t be sure it doesn’t have qualia, but it seems to me more like a method for tricking people into thinking it has qualia than something that actually does.