Analysis of the human mind will, in time, reveal what the different areas of this mind does.
We already know a little about computer memory = RAM and static RAM. That is all randomly addressable as a set of co-ordinates. Input them = result. Human memory  has at least two major aspects, such as &#x27;content addressable memory&#x27;. Like in the army of a million men and you want John Albert Smith = you must inspect each man to see if he is Smith. In fact we call out John Albert Smith and he shouts here. Called a roll call.
There is also associative memory = roll call &#x27;John Albert Smith and his squad&#x27;, and they identify themselves.
Then there are visual memories, odor memories, tactile memories, pain memories, pain memories and more - all content addressable.
We also have computational or mathematical memories to recall or calculate add&#x2F;subtract etc.<p>Once we know them all, we have to know how they interconnect and the hierarchy of them.<p>All these little brain areas, hippocampus, etc etc, all need to be understood.<p>Then we start hooking them together in the best way to make an AI, which may or not be the same ways a human mind assembles them.
At some point we get a primitive AI. We are almost there now. We have huge memories, and huge calculating ability in these early AIs. We add more and more of them together until if works like a human mind. Then we up the clock speed.<p>We are hard at work on this now, and some say 5-10 years and we will succeed.
One thing is true, if we use this AI to compute the next AI, the time spent on each stage will get smaller and smaller and the AI will rise in capability at an ever faster rate in a positive feedback loop.<p>This is where the risks lie. An AI than can kill you as easily as a power saw can cut off a finder is not the AI I want to share space with on this planet - but that is where we seem to be going