I'm really enjoying this discussion that's being had about these things, I think that while these developments will be able to do things, in the end we won't cr

I'm really enjoying this discussion that's being had about these things, I think that while these developments will be able to do things, in the end we won't create AGI, but it will help us better understand what consciousness or cognition actually are. I personally believe, for reasons I haven't fully fleshed out enough to clearly articulate, that an intelligence cannot be created by emulation, that the computation or process or whatever it is has to occur on the "bare metal" of the universe. This is alluded to in this article, that a machine cannot experience raw sensation. I also think it is possible for some reason that the process has to emerge naturally the way we did, although whether "emerge naturally" includes being created by something that emerged naturally I am not sure of, and at that point it becomes a meaningless distinction.