[localfirst]

All reasoning requires self-awareness, how can you cause electric circuits to become self-aware when you can't replicate the "awakeness" that is intrinsic to all sentient beings?

In other words, how can AI tap into the hyper-dimensional knowledge plane that we access with our consciousness first and then vocalize into sounds and letters?

You can RAG what is written only but not what was "thought" to write those letters and so you cannot have a purely rationalizing and reasoning electrical circuit that function like the biological brains.

It's like feeding magic mushrooms to a robot and expecting it to become conscious. There is no bio-chem pathways to activate the pineal gland nor is it possible to mimic it even.