On the other hand, any conclusions we draw will have a very short shelf life, because the machines are in constant flux. Meanwhile, the ease with which one can do this research will sap the attention of researchers away from the harder work of understanding humans.

It's really something. Also check out Cameron Winter's solo album.

I completely agree: there really ought to be work on this, but I haven't come across anything.

I like some of Schwitzgebel's work, so I'll check it out! Thanks!

I've tried googling new papers but nothing seems to confront the strangeness of the present moment.

"The world was filled with forgotten places that had been something else once, had contained something else once, renamed by whatever you did there now."

How about a scale for weighing evidence? Or did you want a mathematical symbol?