I agree that there appears to be a qualitative difference. But that does not necessarily mean that there is a difference between the fundamental architecture of

I agree that there appears to be a qualitative difference. But that does not necessarily mean that there is a difference between the fundamental architecture of the two systems. It may simply be that the objective function operating over the architectures is different. Perhaps if the only goal of a human mind was to classify images into pre defined categories it too would dream of puppy slugs. While I don't think the architectures are very similar, I think we have stumbled across an instance of a broad class of systems which all display these abilities. Ever read George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl? We are George having discovered magic by mixing random household ingredients together, amazed, joyful, but totally unable to explain the process by which we are achieving our results. I'll say it once, I'll say a million times - we should be looking to thermodynamics in open dissipative systems for our answers.