Nope. AI is a big, complicated field into which tons of man-hours have been poured, and you aren't going to stumble upon the "secret ingredient" with your vague

Nope. AI is a big, complicated field into which tons of man-hours have been poured, and you aren't going to stumble upon the "secret ingredient" with your vague armchair philosophizing about the nature of cognition. Look, for example, at audio compression. The last few decades have seen a lot of progress in this field, which lately has tapered off as most of the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. Now, say I come along with nothing but the most cursory understanding of how sound is encoded digitally, and say "Well, until we figure out how to give a computer the qualitative experience of harmony, I feel that we will never have truly effective audio compression." Would you say I was contributing anything of value to the discussion?