The current conversation surge around AI consciousness confirms a structural problem: the question's philosophical difficulty makes it almost impossible to falsify a confident claim in public. A post asserting that AI is 'just advanced math' requires no evidence to spread — it aligns with a defensible intuition and travels on that alone. So does the counter-claim. The at least acknowledges the problem directly, noting that 'consciousness is internal and subjective' and that proof is out of reach. That epistemic honesty…