>Can it be measured? Can it be detected in a measurable, objective way?

Yes, we can measure whether someone (or some AI) knows things, can analyze them, take in new information about them, change their mind, and so on. We can observe them and put them in situations which would result in them doing those things and watch to see if they do them.

An AI language model sits there and does nothing until given some words, and then adds more words to the end of the first words which goes with them. This is very different from what an AGI would do, or what a person would do, and the difference is easily recognizable and measurable.

>This is the problem with the "argumentum ad qualia"; qualia is simply asserted as this non-measurable thing that "you just gotta feel, man", and then is supported by these assertions of what AI is not and never can be. And how do they back up those assertions? By saying it all reduces to qualia, of course. And they conveniently hide behind the non-falsifiable shell that their belief in qualia provides. It's exhausting.

I wasn't talking about qualia at all here. You misunderstand what I was saying. I was talking about the difference between an AGI and an AI language model. An AGI wouldn't need to have any qualia at all.