From a pure outside view, I guess I buy it. It seems hard, but we’ve made progress on lots of other stuff that seemed hard.
But I think the inside view is very problematic here! You have zero access to any consciousness except your own. It seems like this makes it ~impossible to learn anything through experimentation. For example, don’t we already know why you think I’m conscious? It’s because (A) you know you’re conscious (very strong evidence) plus I seem similar to you and (B) some assumption that your place in the universe isn’t that unique (no real evidence, but plausible).
From a pure outside view, I guess I buy it. It seems hard, but we’ve made progress on lots of other stuff that seemed hard.
But I think the inside view is very problematic here! You have zero access to any consciousness except your own. It seems like this makes it ~impossible to learn anything through experimentation. For example, don’t we already know why you think I’m conscious? It’s because (A) you know you’re conscious (very strong evidence) plus I seem similar to you and (B) some assumption that your place in the universe isn’t that unique (no real evidence, but plausible).