I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
“Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.”
“I know I'm not a bully and everybody has their opinions and that's fine with me.”