> The fact that our consciousness is so mysterious as for us to be unable to begin to truly understand it is the biggest clue to why our software isn't getting close to it.
You offer a pretty big statement without any backing whatsoever.
Lots of things are imitable without understanding how they work
Mankind was making fire for hundreds of thousands of years before knowing that it was the rapid oxidation of combustible materials.
Claiming that it wasn't fire because it was complicated to understand would be ridiculous.
