AGI via "Selves and Conversations all the Way Up"

The oddest thing about Artificial Neural Networks is that they actually work despite being based on a completely false model of a biological neuron. Why Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) work remains a mystery. Understanding that "Why" can inform us why real biological neurons might work. We can make progress by identifying universal characteristics between the biological and the synthetic. One universality that we can be certain of is that both biological and artificial neurons are pattern-matching machines.