> Eventually we'll have an a-ha moment... Will we? How can we ever verify that our intervention produces this or that sort of qualia? (For the record, I'm a

> Eventually we'll have an a-ha moment... Will we? How can we ever verify that our intervention produces this or that sort of qualia? (For the record, I'm a fan of theories like IIT [0] that aim to answer questions in the neighborhood of these -- but we should be sober about what is even, in principle, knowable to us. We can verify that intervention X gives behavior Y, but I don't see how we could ever verify that intervention X gives qualitative experience Z (intervening on ourselves aside, which in any case will only tell us about our sort of conscious experience).) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory