The AI delusion: why humans trump machines
Brain-neural interfaces or other high bandwidth sensory tools (like VR) seem to be a good path to start answering the falsifiable hypotheses around consciousness. It seems imminently possible to link minds, either physical minds or a physical-virtual duality, and start experimenting with the qualia that emerge. I’d conjecture that a highly dedicated individual today, with clever hacking, could actually perform crude experiments using available hardware to deduce if they can shift their consciousness to a form of duality with a virtual agent by sufficient sensory override.