I never see mention of another type of integration that seems to me to be necessary for the improvement of AI and for any attempt to establish general artificia

I never see mention of another type of integration that seems to me to be necessary for the improvement of AI and for any attempt to establish general artificial intelligence: integration with the senses. Chains of thought are born in the senses and are constantly updated in the background with information from them. To fully match the human model, AGI based on neural networks will need to dynamically receive information from sensors of all kinds [to be able to sample at least five major categories of physical stimuli, like us]. If we want to reach the level of the neural networks that we carry in our heads, we have to learn more about the role of other brain structures, such as glial cells, which are known to influence the activation and moderation of synapses in the human brain [which correspond to the 'weights' in artificial neural networks], and then apply them to our technological endeavors. Without it two things will happen 1. We will never have strong AI 2. Strong AI that works virtually only, aware of the world and material reality, but denied access to them by its creators. Imagine that it is possible to take a snapshot of a human mental state [an analogue of .h5 weights] and then run it on hardware as we do with our neural networks. It would certainly be a nightmare for a mind endowed with "qualia" to find itself enclosed in a metal box [brain in a vat] with no access to the senses. There are clinical cases analogous to this condition, for example in states where the patient is aware of everything around him but is unable to respond. These issues highlight the ever-present ethical boundaries of IA research. Without integration with real-time sensors AI will always be incomplete and/or inhumane.