Appreciate the crepe joke! My preference is sweet over savory.
On the topic of language, I strongly support Mike’s reply which pushes in the direction of finding the ‘deep structure’ of consciousness. Johannes Kleiner also has written about ways to approach this problem in his paper “Mathematical Models of Consciousness” (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.03223.pdf).
To respond to your ask for us to rethink our philosophical commitments… if you were alive before the period table of elements was discovered, would you similarly urge Mendeleev to rethink his commitment to exploring the structure of matter / finding precise definitions for elements like ‘gold’ and ‘iron’? What reasons or evidence would you need to make research into the structure of matter seem worthwhile? What similar reasons or evidence would we need to decide the same for qualia? A priori, why should we expect that qualia does not have deep structure but matter does? Given the information that colors have certain structural relationships (leading to the CIELAB Color Space: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELAB_color_space), does that make you more or less confident that there is something real and precise here to be studied?
I haven’t watched that talk by Ned Block. Thank you for sharing it and I’ll check it out!
The script now exists: https://www.andzuck.com/projects/archivify/