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Maybe we could build a conscious AI by mimicking how we develop our own self model. Superintelligence is not needed; after all, some mammals seem to be self aware. The technology might be a realistic expansion of what we have now. Call it, Me. The first big compromise was how much to simplify my world, simplify it and let my mind emerge spontaneously. My earliest conscious memory? It’s hazy, but it was the time when I had perceived enough, and correlated enough, that the world crystallized, like frost on a windowpane.