> One interesting outcome of this type of AI is that no one knows what the robot's thinking This is true -- however it's much easier to inspect the contents of

> One interesting outcome of this type of AI is that no one knows what the robot's thinking This is true -- however it's much easier to inspect the contents of an AI's thoughts/consciousness, since you can pause, rewind, disassemble, and reassemble it at will (unlike the human brain and our current pesky ethical experiment requirements). So I think there's reason to believe that we could learn about our own consciousness through analyzing conscious AIs, particularly if they are implementations/emulations of the human brain architecture. (e.g. see the Blue Brain project that's simulating the mouse hippocampus).