Eliezer, it seems to me that several of your posts have revolved around a clutch containing three different problems: where self-reflection comes from, where absolute ideas of perfection come from, and where hierarchies of higher logical types come from. Can you point me to some posts where you have written about any of these? I would guess that any attempt to create a viable AI will have to incorporate the three functions into some sort of basic reference level that continues to move over and pervade everything else. These, plus a unitary physical body and some constitution of purposiveness, ought to do it!