Artificial intelligence is lost in the woods: A conscious mind will never be built out of software, argues a Yale university professor

David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale University, states that a conscious mind is never built out of software. The potential human presence that exists in the simulated conscious mind could never exist in the unconscious one. A computer can be a mind can be a conscious mind, if the right software is supplied. The Chinese Room argument, proposed in 1980 by John Searle, a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley, is intended to show that no computer running software could possibly manifest understanding or be conscious. A computer might be able to perform all the mathematical calculations, but it can never be able to understand their meanings. Some researchers believe that when a computer executes the right combination of primitive instructions in the right way, a new conscious mind will emerge. The fact is that the conscious mind emerges when we've collected many neurons together.