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I might be taking too tight of a reading, i.e. too literal, on Bitbol's sentiment here but I think he is talking about gathering the fullest amount of data possible in an experimental situation. In other words, 3rd person scientists need to accommodate intelligent 1st person phenomenalism. And this means a new methodology and finding new veins through which to offer up new blood. Old stuff. Back in 1991 Strassman of the famous DMT experiments, of which we have written before, was blending 1st and 3rd person accounts of singular psychological events as a matter of course. It is only good science. I cannot find the link but months ago I posted that even Daniel Dennett was giving weight to the 1st person accounts in studies of the mind. Look at it this way, the more variables one can plug into the potential statistical base, the larger the research grant...
I would have thought y'all had been in the business long enough to know that it is not the purity of the hypothesis that leads to the truth, but the adage: follow the money.