But our hypothetical machine contains all the same components that you do, including an attention schema that contains the same information within it. On consulting its attention schema, it, too, would be informed that it has a private, personal, and immaterial feeling. Both you and the machine, constructed in the same way, are stuck in the same logic loop. You know only what you know and can report only the information within you—and that information can, in principle, be probed by someone else.
