I'm not sure exactly what distinction you're making, but I realised after posting that I made a leap from observation to experience. Observation doesn't require

I'm not sure exactly what distinction you're making, but I realised after posting that I made a leap from observation to experience. Observation doesn't require experience, in the sense that a p-zombie could take in sensory information, and use them to make scientific inferences, without ever experiencing those observations. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that the only way to observe consciousness is to experience it directly, and doing so proves it exists (at least to ourselves). And sure, from the perspective of some kind of science automaton in the material world, consciousness is as ridiculous as invisible unicorns, but we still experience it.