It does seem that we have all the tools necessary to create artificial consciousness. We have relational databases, text file data structures, key/value storag

It does seem that we have all the tools necessary to create artificial consciousness. We have relational databases, text file data structures, key/value storage systems, cryptographic signature systems, etc. These can form the core basis of cybernetic memory. But it seems nobody has been able to formulate the arrangement of code and ideas, and a vision, to bring it all together. A neural network is just a very sophisticated pattern recognizer. You need a higher algorithm than that, in order to kickstart an artificial consciousness. It’s not real of course. It’s just a collection of electrons, following a probabilistic decision tree, with a somewhat deterministic approach, to reaching a mathematical conclusion, based on a series of linear equations, in order to select the optimal winner. But when the robot talks back to you, and recalls everything that you did together, and how it “felt” at that moment, then, it will seem and appear, to be very real.