[Galaxeblaffer]

I'm also in the camp that believes that we won't reach agi without significantly more compute. I think that consciousness is an emergent property, just like i think life itself is an emergent property, Both need a certain set elements/systems to work. The secret sauce may look simple when we recreate the right conditions, but it's not going to be something that makes it possible without the right hardware so to speak.

[knodi123]

But, take for instance, sight. Sighted people use a large percentage of their brain to process visual input. People born congenitally blind are no smarter or dumber for their brains not having to process that input- so clearly that's not the secret sauce.

I'm not convinced consciousness is emergent, I don't really have an opinion on _that_- but I'm > 50% convinced that consciousness itself doesn't require a neural network as large as a human brain's.