This is similar to the distinction between “the hard problem” of AI consciousness and the relatively easier problem of getting an AI to pass the Turing test.
It’s relatively straightforward to determine whether an AI can or cannot pass as an intelligent, conscious entity via the Turing test. It’s much harder to know whether the AI *feels* itself to be is a conscious, living being from its own internal perspective. nostr:note1m668ha42jzr8h6snmq8ts3llrdcghcsa43p8p62grz65yq77s55swkfuea
Great framing.
And the great challenge of science is that there is no “view from nowhere” so it’s always fighting against our inescapable first person-ness.
Totally.
That’s why the “age of the universe is 26.7B years” is so absurd. From *whose* perspective? At the time of the Big Bang, all of reality existing in a single point, where time itself dilates to infinity.
Science insists there is some 3rd party ghost observer at all times, no matter how ridiculous.
This is why most scientists are so baffled by quantum mechanics — they have a hard time accepting the influence of their own perceptions on reality
