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All true points, but consider your V4 example. We have software that is gradually approaching mammalian-level ability for visual information processing (not human-level just yet, but our visual cortex is larger than most animals' entire cortices, so that's not surprising). So, as far as building AI is concerned, so what if we don't understand V4 yet, if we can produce software that is that good at image processing?
I am more confident that we can produce software that can classify images, music and faces correctly than I am that we can integrate multimodal aspects of these modulae into a coherent being that thinks it has a self, goals, identity, and that can reason about morality. That's what I tried to address in my FLI grant proposal, which was rejected (by the way, correctly so, it needed the latest improvements, and clearly - if they actually needed it - AI money should reach Nick, Paul and Stuart before our team.) We'll be presenting it in Oxford, tomorrow?? Shhh, don't tell anyone, here, just between us, you get it before the Oxford professors ;) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D67pMbhOQKUWCQ6FdhYbyXSndonk9LumFZ-6K6Y73zo/edit