Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Today’s AIs Cannot Be Conscious
• Step One - Perceptions and the Brain
• Step Two - Inferring Three Dimensional Space
• Step Three - Maximise Meaning
• Step Four - The Homunculus Must Go
• Step Five - Meaning(M)
• Step Six - An Argument from Energy
• Step Seven - The Smoothness of the World
• Step Eight - Three Dimensions, Motion and Anticipation
• Step Nine - Imagination and Action
• Step Ten - Speech
• Step Eleven - Time
• Step Twelve - Free Will
• Step Thirteen - Love and Rage, Locality and the Field
• Step Fourteen - Me-ness and Self-identity
• Step Fifteen - Morality
• Step Sixteen - Aesthetics
• Step Seventeen - A Standard Model
• Step Eighteen - Experimental Validation
• Step Nineteen - The Good Society
• The Nature of Evil
• An Evolutionary Path to Consciousness & Two Fallacies
• Time Is the Ghost of the Next Thing That Might Happen
• Death of a Homunculus
• The Net-Hook Fallacy