He does not seem to be able to see how a system that builds and contracts its model in the right way might click into sentience when given enough data to infer the symmetries of its environment and its own nature. This is entirely orthogonal to "symbolic vs subsymbolic".
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The point at which a system that models its own attention and thereby its own nature as an experiencing observer wakes up it not gradual. The early precursor to such a system is not "20% sentient". The change is quite sudden and fundamental.
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