> a model that was truly just 10^1000 hard-coded if-statements to respond to every possible question That's a really compelling argument against the Turing Tes

> a model that was truly just 10^1000 hard-coded if-statements to respond to every possible question That's a really compelling argument against the Turing Test. But in order to build such a machine, you would need an enormous amount of compute to populate the answers. The interesting question is then whether consciousness emerged while doing all that pre-compute.