Trying to simplify my Consciousness hypothesis

[I_am_not_mafia]

First tell us what qualia is, how to recognise it and give us reason to suspect that it exists.

Qualia is the subjective experience of what things are like: what it's like to drink hot chocolate, what it's like to see something red, and so on.  In order to recognize your own, I recommend you open your eyes and look at something, assuming you yourself are not a philosophical zombie.  As for "suspecting" that it exists, I can only comment for myself-- qualia is an accurate label for my experiences of what things are like-- it doesn't need to be proven, because the word is simply a label for that.  I suspect that YOU also experience qualia, since you are likely human, and since I suspect that all humans experience qualia.

I don't believe that you experience qualia. Convince me that you do. As far as I You're just a biological automata.

When you drink hot chocolate your taste buds recognise the chemical make-up of the liquid and match it to other evolved and learned tastes (e.g. sweet, not bitter or sour) to determine whether it will cause disturbance to your homoeostatic balance. Signals from your body reveal that it is warm. When you see red then the red sensitive cones in your eyes are firing more strongly than the green and blue ones. This then triggers certain associations, both evolved and learned and maybe evokes memories.

You say you experience qualia but you are repeating phrases learned from your environment. I see no evidence of you actually experiencing red or hot chocolate. You're just reacting to sensory stimuli. No different from a circuit board controlling a robot, or a fish or animal or a baby with a brain that is still developing.