Comment by canadiantim

It's literally part of the definition. Qualia is a well recognized term in neuroscience.

I suspect maybe you haven't done much research into this area? Qualia is pretty well established and has been for a long time.

Animals may have qualia, that's true. Though we can only be sure of our own qualia, because that's all we have access to. Qualia is the constituent parts that make up our subjective conscious experience, the atomized subjective experience, like the color red or the taste of sour.