Virtually all of these discussions of AI come from the very peculiar way in which we view our own intelligence. It's only the notion of a "conscious will" or wh

Virtually all of these discussions of AI come from the very peculiar way in which we view our own intelligence. It's only the notion of a "conscious will" or whatever unifying feature we find in reflective self-awareness that prevents us viewing intelligence as nothing more than large chains of deterministic complexity. It is a hypothesis that there is something to even human behavior which is more than this deterministic complexity. In other words, there may be no qualitative leap from the AI we currently have to some sort of "real AI" or singularity or whatnot. It may be that you just build up more complex cases over time. That way of thinking is hurtful to our egos (we would be simply complex deterministic automatons) but there is really nothing other than our pride to suggest that this is not, or could not, be the case. It would also put to rest concerns about machine AI, as it would be an extension of what currently exists, simply on a larger scale.