Abstract:
Natural laws, such as the principle of the constancy of light velocity, are vital to science. If we trace any scientific theory back to its origins, we will end up with these natural laws. If that is the case, we should take it for granted that the science of consciousness requires one too. The science of consciousness is our very first attempt to bind the objective with the subjective; the objective is what can be observed when we insert a recording electrode, while the subjective comes in the form of subjective experience and poses the question of what a neural network is experiencing in the first person. As soon as we acknowledge its necessity, both the explanatory gap and the hard problem vanish into thin air; the natural law is what closes the gap and nullifies the difficulty of the problem.

I explain the above argument and further propose an experimental approach to validate such laws of nature, which, as a byproduct, results in a viable method for mind uploading. The key to the approach is a totally new type of BMI that enables reading and writing information with unprecedented precision.

References:
Masataka Watanabe, “From Biological to Artificial Consciousness”, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91138-6

Masataka Watanabe, Kang Cheng, Yusuke Murayama, Kenichi Ueno, Takeshi Asamizuya, Keiji Tanaka, Nikos Logothetis. Attention But Not Awareness Modulates the BOLD Signal in the Human V1 During Binocular Suppression. SCIENCE. 334. 6057. 829-831. 2011
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1203161