We struggle to define the traits, characteristics, properties of intelligence, sentience or awareness. Nor can we locate the physical processes, exactly, by wh

We struggle to define the traits, characteristics, properties of intelligence, sentience or awareness. Nor can we locate the physical processes, exactly, by which these things come into being in a human brain. Some voodoo to do with information processing in an embodied system as an agent trying to survive in the world, maybe, if you're a materialist. We know approximately nothing about the configuration that a state of matter would need, to attain intelligent, sentient, aware properties like we have. Other than that something extremely like a human brain (including non-human animal brains) seem to possess these properties in some way. Certain configurations in machines are starting to exhibit the first trait, at least, intelligence. Arguably. I don't think we can even rule out that AGI might, kind of just accidentally happen, in some sufficiently complex self-feedback machine learning-based information-processing task. Since that's one of the main hypotheses for how we came about to think. Just a gut feeling tells me nothing we've built is anywhere near large enough for that. But the supposition that intelligence, sentience, awareness, are tied to big data, big processing, and biological parallelism -- is just that, a supposition. What if the secret of it all boils down to something that can be described mathematically on one page (my other gut feeling), which happens to be physically realized in some way in our heads? Can't be ruled out, either. I can't really see how to set any bounds on anything with these questions. How many bits does it take to hold a mind?