> I don't think AI will ever become conscious in the same way that humans are, rather, it'll be conscious on its own terms. I think that people who are attempt

> I don't think AI will ever become conscious in the same way that humans are, rather, it'll be conscious on its own terms. I think that people who are attempting to simulate a human brain using an utterly biomimetic design stand a good chance of artificially creating something that is conscious in the same way that humans are. I also think it's possible they may be able to achieve this before they full understand how the human brain works. i.e. if you copy the design accurately enough, the machine may work even if you don't know how. The resulting consciousness could theoretically be totally self-aware, but no more capable than we ourselves of modifying its own programming with intentionality and purpose. i.e. not the singularity. I think there should be two different concepts of AI- "a consciousness using the same processes and design as our own", and "an essentially alien consciousness that fully understands itself". And I suspect that even if some engineering genie gave us the first kind of AI, we'd be no closer to developing the second kind.