That's an interesting question, and I think it reveals something about the difficulty of studying consciousness strictly in a "scientific" way, i.e., based on e

That's an interesting question, and I think it reveals something about the difficulty of studying consciousness strictly in a "scientific" way, i.e., based on experimental results, empirical evidence, falsifiability, reproducibility.. How can we test the existence of a wholly subjective/interior experience? This seems to relate to, for example, if it's possible to measure and quantify pain (or pleasure I suppose) objectively.