This presupposes that conscious, self-directed intelligence is at all what you're thinking it is, which it might not be (probably isn't). Given that, perhaps no

This presupposes that conscious, self-directed intelligence is at all what you're thinking it is, which it might not be (probably isn't). Given that, perhaps no amount of predictors in any arrangement or with any amount of dynamism will ever create an emergent phenomenon of real intelligence. You say emergence is a real thing, and it is, but we have not one single example of it taking the form of sentience in any human-created thing of complexity.