> For instance, we have the entire connectome of c. elegans mapped out... So, in one sense, we are at that level. Well, whatever "intelligence" C elegans has,

> For instance, we have the entire connectome of c. elegans mapped out... So, in one sense, we are at that level. Well, whatever "intelligence" C elegans has, I think everyone would agree that it's far from insect-level; it's microsocopic-nematode-level. But I am not sure a simulation of C elgans rises to the level of "artificial". As you note, we don't understand it yet. But we may have already built systems that are more "intelligent" (whatever that means) than C elegans, and we may have done that decades ago. > From what we currently understand, as I currently understand it, we have yet to find such a mechanism that would allow for it. True, but our path to artificial intelligence may not end up going through neural networks at all. We've not achieved flight by mimicking biological flight. I'm not saying it won't, either, but we cannot say for sure that it will. We really don't know.