That perhaps with the advent of, so called, quantum computation, humanity could have the capability to map neural interactions with such precision that every complex response a human being can experience and thus, feel, could be replicated within an artificial body living in a virtual/real environment. But to be considered close to human responses they should be able to act with free will and for personal gain, to basically have moral interest towards their surroundings. So, perhaps, to be considered as artificial intelligence, we would have to create machines that have the illusion that they are mortal so to mimic in all perfection the existential struggle of conscious beings, constantly analyzing the past and inferring their future, expressing themselves individually as ephemeral biological systems with name, age, genre, wants, desires, fears, traumas, etc.
António Damásio and his wife were incredibly clear to explain how a person with a damaged neo-frontal cortex demonstrates the utilitarian moral reasoning of a bacteria. And that feelings have developed in humans because they're useful for our evolution, to explain what's wrong or right with more accuracy to our peers and keep on surviving. Nevertheless, I see it has redundant to be publicly advocating against "robot intelligence" when the technology that suggests that possibility is yet to be discovered.
Dream more Dr. Damásio. What you see is not what everybody can get.
