The speaker says the question of how experience works—how a system can feel and experience reality and itself—remains unresolved and is under-researched.

“How does experience work? Well, how is it possible for a system to feel at all? How is it possible for us to experience reality and ourselves in it?”

“That this question is so under-researched that it's not resolved, and not only that it's not resolved, but the people who are working on it are-- don't seem to be making much progress, and in many ways they have regressed.”