This is very simple: consciousness is not an epiphenomenon of the brain. It's a universal force. We don't emit consciousness, we tap into it and experience it as individuations.
This why AI will never happen in the generalized sense. Because as long as we keep thinking we can engineer a mind out of matter, we'll keep chasing our tails.
Matter is a by-product of the universal mind.
And we all experience our lives as singular nodes of that mind.
This has been known for millennia and is the basis for the world religions (which are mostly dumbed down co-optings of this).
You just rediscovered dualism, consciousness is the new spirit, immaterial and beyond scientific investigation. Dualism is a dead end, it took a lot of time for people to understand that.
Why not come to the concrete level and realise that without consciousness you would not get something to eat and quickly die. So it has to do with life. We're complex self-replicators in an environment with scarce resources. We rely on consciousness to continue to exist. It feels like something to be you because you got a lot to win or lose, you're in a game of life and need to choose your actions.
This why AI will never happen in the generalized sense. Because as long as we keep thinking we can engineer a mind out of matter, we'll keep chasing our tails.
Matter is a by-product of the universal mind. And we all experience our lives as singular nodes of that mind.
This has been known for millennia and is the basis for the world religions (which are mostly dumbed down co-optings of this).
Also, Bitcoin fixes this.