I believe it's important to discover the areas where
  consciousness can be analyzed and picked apart. A lot of study
  regarding the visual systems has been taking place for over 150
  years now. It is one of the best studied. The chemical detectors
  of smell is one of the LEAST studied, unfortunately, with
  hearing somewhere in the middle.

  How our machinery operates is a valid and interesting study, and
  I'm glad there are lots of people working on it.

  Yet will they construct a consciousness? It's possible, but I
  still believe a study of consciousness has to recognize that it
  is a consciousness that is studying the consciousness.

  That's the nature of the hard problem: the objectivity of
  academics and the sciences gets in the way at that point.
  Consciousness is subjective. How can we know if we've created
  consciousness objectively if we cannot perceive from the point
  of view of the subjective?

  Is it possible to go from objective to subjective while
  remaining objective? *that's* quite the hard problem, unless
  you're a Psychologist. That's their domain.

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