Despite all the increases in the graphical resolution of computer games (mainly by increasing the number of transistors used to run them), we've yet to get NPCs that simulate intelligence. Let alone *consciousness*.
Mainly because we don't yet have a scientific model of what consciousness *is*, or how it works. If we don't even begin to understand it's mechanisms (if indeed it has any), how can we simulate them?
So is this a tractable science problem requiring only time? I suspect not.
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