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> You don’t need sensors, you just need a virtual room.

While technically true, I actually think this is way more difficult than it sounds, bordering on practical impossibility.

I think the other commenter was making a really important point. The simulated environment would need to be incredibly rich, to a point as to almost defy imagination.

Consider what happens to a human mind when confined in a box (prison) with limited opportunities for stimulation. There’s a room, a gym, other people with which to socialize, food, walls, an outdoors enclosure... And yet someone who spends their entire life in this type of environment will certainly be facing serious neurodevelopmental issues.

For human/mammal order of AI, I would even argue that simulating adequate inputs might actually be a more difficult problem than building the AI that responds to them!