"Every bit of observable behaviour could be explained in terms of habitual behaviour and physical pattern matching, exactly what a trained NN will do - it will

"Every bit of observable behaviour could be explained in terms of habitual behaviour and physical pattern matching, exactly what a trained NN will do - it will perfectly accurately separate patterns which corresponds to different quantities, while posses no notion of any abstract concepts whatsoever." I think this is interesting -- what's stopping us from making that exact assumption? For all we know, higher consciousness and "humanity" is simply an emergent property of lots and lots of rote pattern recognition stacked on top of itself. I think there's an argument to be made that there's no line between "pattern matching" and "abstract concepts" -- it's more of a smooth, emergent gradient. Just my two cents.