There are no roads where you are going. But I can offer you some pointers: Consciousness requires sensation and action. Without action animals don’t learn to p

There are no roads where you are going. But I can offer you some pointers: Consciousness requires sensation and action. Without action animals don’t learn to perceive anything at all. If I were trying to make a conscious artificial being the first thing I would do would be to sign them up for a fast paced online FPS and teach them to play. Next give them emotions (0 dimensional precepts). Any time your codebase starts to feel big, delete most of it. Your end goal will be maybe 1000 lines total. Use matrices.