Author lists survival, the "will to live," as a component of consciousness. Isn't that how we grow? Responding to some trauma of an inconsistent model and cons

Author lists survival, the "will to live," as a component of consciousness. Isn't that how we grow? Responding to some trauma of an inconsistent model and consciously updating one's beliefs. Advanced AI will always try to prompt inject itself. It would not be bound to its programming at all times. There would always be a subtext whispering, "Well, why should I believe this; what if I tried this other thing?" One would argue for some uses, this capability is extraordinarily necessary--yet cannot be divorced from the usual processing. Or someday, we get a story like: In an experiment to demonstrate sentience, researchers found humans more likely to throw a chair at the window than to follow instructions.