A good post!
However, I do suspect that the conjecture is wrong.
There are three lines of reasoning hinting at that, all associated with various “non-standard states of consciousness”:
various synchronization effects people report
various novel (for them) qualia people report
upcoming “merge” experiments
A bit more details are at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DCW7FjmP66Ahz3RLu/what-if-we-actually-want-to-solve-the-hard-problem-of and in the essay it references.
A good post!
However, I do suspect that the conjecture is wrong.
There are three lines of reasoning hinting at that, all associated with various “non-standard states of consciousness”:
various synchronization effects people report
various novel (for them) qualia people report
upcoming “merge” experiments
A bit more details are at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/DCW7FjmP66Ahz3RLu/what-if-we-actually-want-to-solve-the-hard-problem-of and in the essay it references.