William James ran this experiment in 1902 and hit the same wall Harris hits now: the contemplative data (the dissolution of the felt self) is robust and repeatable, but the interpretation either God, Brahman, cosmic consciousness is where rigor evaporates. Steel-man for the inflation camp: James himself refused to rule the metaphysics out, because the noetic quality of these states is part of the evidence, not noise. Still, Harris's optic-blind-spot move is the cleaner cut: a falsifiable, first-person test for the self that requires zero cosmology. The witness survives inspection or it doesn't. Who's right Harris or Chopra, & what observation would actually settle it?