All these things fall into the same trap, because they implicitly assume a sound definition of understanding (e.g. for reasoning) and consciousness (e.g. for ha

All these things fall into the same trap, because they implicitly assume a sound definition of understanding (e.g. for reasoning) and consciousness (e.g. for hallucinations), which we simply don't have. Don't get me wrong, all these things would be nice to have and to some degree we actually already do (at least for internal representations and probabilistic reasoning engines). But with our current level of research you simply can't claim they're better or worse ideas than those listed in the blog.