[wildermuthn]

That’s a fair critique, and I appreciate the engagement. Thanks!

My thinking is based on the Attention-Schema theory of consciousness (AST), by Michael Graziano. His book “Consciousness and the Social Brain” is, I believe, the right roadmap for AGI. AST is basically a variant of the Global Workspace theory of consciousness, distinguished by its deterministic account of the mechanics and utility of consciousness.

“The Consciousness Prior” by Bengio also informs my thinking.

I’m not certain that I can point to anyone that has been as explicit as I have that phenomenological consciousness is a prerequisite for intelligence, but all the cookie crumbs are there for anyone interested in following the trail.

One correction to what you wrote — I’m explicitly saying that AGI will be fundamentally the same as existing biological intelligence, in that intelligence resides only in consciousness, and consciousness remains consciousness regardless of being biological or artificial. My point was that no currently existing DL models are generally intelligent.