Evidence for a god. Do you have any ?

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OK, please define what you mean by the term 'subjective experience'

Something that qualia is part of.

it seems to me that any software that would be able to *exactly* mimic a human in all behavior would require an internal state that it has access to

Robots can already mimic many aspects of human behavior and they don't seem to have any subjective experience. Advances in programming will make their behavior more human like but that doesn't mean that they will be able to feel pain.

And what is a quale? it is a part of subjective experience. So a circular definition. Not very useful.

Why do you think it is possible to have computers *exactly* behave like humans and not have qualia? How do you know other people have qualia? For that matter, how do you know *you* do?

I disagree with you statement about computers and feeling pain. To be able to exactly mimic human behavior, they would have to be programmed to have a negative reaction to certain stimuli. To be able to produce the behavior, that negative reaction has to be sufficiently negative that it *would* be the experience of pain as expressed in the circuitry involved.