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>It’s not intelligence. It’s artificial intelligence.

It's really not intelligence yet and therein lies the confusion. There is no THINKING going on. It's Machine Learning with an Expert System and LARGE Datasets. Enough samples and it can sound like it's smart.

Neurons are vastly more complex than just a bundle of connections. They have protein storage for long term information (equivalent to memory in a computer). They have glial cells. And, they sort of function together in an analog way.

There is one gene of difference that separates human intelligence from Chimpanzee. And I think it might be part of the folding in the brain...

Anyway. The collection of parts in various algorithms might get a very close approximation of intelligence. It might be "insightful." But it won't be conscious and not actually intelligent.

Now, the "gestalt" of various systems tied together, could very well be conscious and intelligent. I really thought it was going to require a paradigm shift away from binary computing but much to my chagrin, looks like we are less complicated than we thought -- but, there is one more trick we do that nobody is doing yet with these machines and there might be some interface with quantum effects.

The human brain is doing something like Stable Diffusion on a constant basis. Our perception is slightly in the future -- anticipating our environment -- constantly.

The functional parts that work together to make a human mind all seem to be in development. And like humans, each alone won't be conscious.

Also -- humans I think are MOSTLY conscious. We rationalize more than are rational, and we think we are making choices all the time. But we aren't fully aware of things objectively and take a lot of shortcuts.

And a lot of us choose not to be intelligent on a regular basis, so, once the AI gets the conscious bit, it won't be much of a leap to get ahead.