I think you're getting into the mind-body problem there. The mind is not machinery, the brain is. You'll never be able to cut open someone's brain and find the

I think you're getting into the mind-body problem there. The mind is not machinery, the brain is. You'll never be able to cut open someone's brain and find the content of their thoughts or experience. We (mind/soul) are only semi-transcendent, not transcendent, so the objectivity required to do what you're describing is not directly possible.