The question, then, is whether you think the consequence of this suddenly happening to companies with a central position in the current economy will be really bad or just creative destruction as usual. I think the only thing Ed Zitron is saying is that it will be potentially quite bad...

Why? There were clearly sustainable business models during the dotcom boom. The bubble still popped, if you call this the growth slows fine, but it seems euphemistic.

Because there is evidence that the brain harbours general cognitive mechanisms/systems/phenomena that are not immediately tied to specific sensory input?

but a lot of science operates on reproducibility and not the fact that many people in the room take the same measurement at the same time - seems to be a limiting condition to define this possibility as a necessity, if we largely operate without it.

Anything within the scientific endeavour is at least intersubjective - we need to agree on measurement outcomes that are presented to us individually as subjective experiences.
It's true that you and me might not be able to prepare the same mental phenomenon,

I agree that our psychological theories are not mature, this is why they seem to be so susceptible to this kind of scepticism, but eventually you can bring down every scientific field in this way.

That you need auxiliary hypothesis is true in any scientific field. Accepting that mental phenomena exist seems quite pragmatic to me, because I have direct empirical access to mine.

to instruct a thought process, that leads to X red and X green flashes - report the number and order of these flashes. It sound crazy, but not impossible?

Is this not a measurement of a mental phenomenon. Why not? Because the motor sequence is an external cause? Because time is a physical outside reference?
I can think of variants of this experiment, which do away with both, i.e. with a sophisticated psychological theory I might be ablet

I put you in a dark rook - 0 photons. You have a clock that is emitting a sound every X seconds. Now, I am teaching you a complicated motor sequence, that leads to two perceptible light flashes. I ask you to report the time between the two flashes - the time ends up being the same for everyone.

I see. Just to understand, what, in your opinion, is the difference between my observation that pain exists and the observation that water freezes, when I cool it down to 0 deg C? Not saying there are the same, but curious what constitutes the difference.

That's a conjecture, right?

Just curious: Where was the feature film comprehension achieved?

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