We're fumbling in the dark here, but that doesn't mean that we can't be close to a major breakthrough. > We can't expect this stuff [sentience/consciousness]

We're fumbling in the dark here, but that doesn't mean that we can't be close to a major breakthrough. > We can't expect this stuff [sentience/consciousness] to magically appear from a large neural network I actually expect those things to magically appear. If you have a functioning brain in a jar it should "come to life" automatically, because it's a reasoning machine. It reasons, therefore it becomes conscious. Just as byproduct of its complexity.