IMO there’s a version of the problem that’s very solvable: define the mapping between physical and conscious states. In particular: is it one-to-one (panpsychi

IMO there’s a version of the problem that’s very solvable: define the mapping between physical and conscious states. In particular: is it one-to-one (panpsychism)? Many-to-one (materialism)? One-to-many (idealism)? We’re already finding course-grained mappings via neuroscience. All we need to do is iterate. This won’t tell us anything about the ontological nature of the mapping, any more than General Relativity tells us about the ontological nature of spacetime. But we’d be able to make and validate predictions.