>A.I can't reach consciousness since there is a lot of non-symbolic thinking going on There's no reason to think that an AI couldn't have non-symbolic modes of

>A.I can't reach consciousness since there is a lot of non-symbolic thinking going on There's no reason to think that an AI couldn't have non-symbolic modes of thought. Symbolic systems can be used to implement non-symbolic systems, which then have the constraints and limitations of the non-symbolic system. Neural nets are widely considered to be sub-symbolic systems. This was a core debate between the connectionists and those that argued symbolism was required for cognition and that neural nets were a dead end.