If there was a Dumb Non-Experiencing Robot in the frame, and it had some sort of vision system going, presumably it would be able to find the pole, right?
I don't know! You don't know! Daniel Dennett doesn't know! It's the xkcd Universe, man! Anything can happen!
But, assuming it could find the pole: so what? Would that mean that experiencing-the-pole isn't a quale? Can qualia only be experienced by conscious entities? Is that the definition of qualia? Is that the definition of consciousness?
Is a quale something you can't describe in terms of something else?
Still not sure I get it.
I don't know! You don't know! Daniel Dennett doesn't know! It's the xkcd Universe, man! Anything can happen!
But, assuming it could find the pole: so what? Would that mean that experiencing-the-pole isn't a quale? Can qualia only be experienced by conscious entities? Is that the definition of qualia? Is that the definition of consciousness?
Is a quale something you can't describe in terms of something else?