Fair, I'll grant that human level intelligence and cognition could be separate. My own entirely unscientific opinion is that consciousness arises from the complex interactions of neurons. The more neurons, the more likely you are to be conscious.

I dont think pattern matching will ever get us to AGI. It's way, way too brittle. It's also completely lacks understanding. A lot of learning and intelligence comes from transference. I know the traits of object A, and I recognize the traits of object B are similar, therefore B will probably act like A. That jump is not possible with current architecture.