Given that it can now interpret a scene as containing a table three feet away, it can also say ‘the table is three feet from me’—yet it need have no acquaintance with its bodily shape, or long-term history. And it most certainly needs no acquaintance with an internal ego or immortal soul.
The robot is close to enlightenment. It need only realize that, from a first-person perspective, there is no distance and that, as an appearance in consciousness, the table in the next room is as close as the distant galaxy.
