You’re just using another slippery term when you invoke “experience” in that way though. We know that experience is just chemistry with higher-order structure, even in humans.
Okay? Does that mean it doesn't exist? Or that we can know whether things have it? Whether a rock has it? Whether you have it? I don't understand what point or concept you're trying to refute.
Consciousness isn't having pain receptors, it's experiencing sensations.
And I'm saying that "experiencing" is a matter of degree, just as "consciousness" is. It's not there or not there, it's not a boolean. It's a question of "how much complexity is there".
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