Yes. If you are a circuit board, getting some water on yourself would be one way to (potentially destructively) learn about what your design actually is. Or f

Yes. If you are a circuit board, getting some water on yourself would be one way to (potentially destructively) learn about what your design actually is. Or fault injection or fuzzing, same idea. By making errors happen, you find out about possible errors that even can happen, and that tells you something about the overall design. Maybe the design cannot be fully determined this way, but a portion can be learned, maybe a portion unreachable by any other means (MRI, neural probes, etc) so research into the mind and consciousness by use of psychedelics does make sense.