working in the area of math that led to this tech has been so fucking wild because there's just no way you can trick yourself into believing a lot of linear algebra is going to add up to consciousness unless you have been marinating in the bad brain juices for decades now
I'm pretty sure that the application of vast amounts of electricity in the hope of creating a functional brain is a plot point of a well known book by Mary Shelley. These people are incapable of an original idea.
Actually this is an important point. People including myself will express disbelief that mathematicians can believe this sort of thing, but this is the power of centuries of art holding sway over the emotional centers of our brain
