The general assumption is that intelligence is computational, and that consciousness will spontaneously emerge at a certain degree of complexity. These are assumptions based on our current dominant technology, the digital computer.

No real evidence that these assumptions are accurate though.

It opens up another realm of stalking. It’ll be doing facial recognition and automatically tagging people with their Facebook, Twitter, Tinder, OF, etc.

I am agreeing with you

We literally don't know how to build it. There's no way to make milestones because we don't know what the stones would be. At the moment it's still in the realm of time travel or FTL, might be possible, might not.

SD might be a step in the right direction or it might be a blind alley. It could be a Wright Brothers moment, or it could be the software equivalent of an ornithopter or an airscrew.

So how does an animal make decisions for itself?

Is thinking something other than executing a program?

Interesting that you draw a distinction between consciousness and awareness.

I could write a network that takes the log files as an input and runs continuously in the background if that would help?

My computer has log files. It remembers its own internal processes very well.

I am so getting a pair of these when they drop.