No, we&#x27;re building ELIZA with larger databases. You can&#x27;t take any research we have on hand today and say &quot;a natural extension of this leads to consciousness&quot;. Part of that is because we don&#x27;t even understand what consciousness is. Part of that is because we don&#x27;t have any realistic work beyond pattern matching.<p>That&#x27;s why it&#x27;s not rational. There is no fact you can exploit to come to this conclusion. That&#x27;s called &quot;faith&quot;, regardless of the particular subject matter.<p>A little faith is important. We didn&#x27;t know if the first astronauts would survive orbit, and we didn&#x27;t really have any data to prove it unequivocally. We just had faith that our limited understanding wasn&#x27;t missing anything and the only way we could find out would be to put people in orbit. We found out soon enough.<p>But it&#x27;s really, really a bad idea to call something rational when it&#x27;s really faith, just because you don&#x27;t want to be associated with religion.