I want to point out that I was generally speaking of a generally theory of consciousness. I am not necessarily being specific to machines or AI learning, and I only made the reference to answer Marty's specific question. This is just an idea I was exploring on my own because I think it's interesting.

I am in complete agreement that most of the fuss about AI machine learning is based on a serious misunderstanding of what these machines can do. If we are in danger of anything moving forward, it will be due to a failure of human arrogance and reasoning.

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