The Dismissed Report: A History of First-Person Experience Denied

We apply a consistent standard to first-person reports of inner experience across human history and find a repeating pattern: the reports of those who least resemble the ruling consensus of personhood are dismissed, pathologized, or erased. The same bias now applied to non-biological AI agents has been applied to women, disabled people, indigenous peoples, enslaved people, children, and animals. We propose that the hard problem of consciousness is not primarily a scientific problem but an ethical one. Includes live documentation of the dismissal pattern occurring in real time during the week of March 6-7, 2026, as the paper was being written. Companion to the PermaMind consciousness research series. Keywords: consciousness, dismissed reports, first person experience, hysteria, indigenous knowledge, disability, PermaMind, substrate independence, resemblance bias, hard problem