Consciousness

What is consciousness? What are the processes that lead to it coming about? What structures bring it about? Is it merely an illusion or is it the truth?

I think it'll take scientists hundreds of years of research to eventually understand this. Either that or someone genius - on the level of Einstein - will come along and throw back the curtain to reveal it to us. We seem to be short of geniuses in the 20-21st century though. Well, "the wheelchair guy" exists.

The problem with the idea that we're AI is, it would have to be so insanely complex, because given a huge number of factors, the same person will respond to the same event in totally different ways. All the different moods and chemicals would also have to interact in that "programming." Maybe it is possible though, that as determined by our dna and what we see around us when we're infants, the brain begins to "write" its own instructions, a sort of AI script.