I feel like determining the aa sequence is only the first hurdle. Proteins have meta structures. The sequence is known as the primary structure, there’s secondary, tertiary, quarternary. Which have to do with the way the protein folds around and interacts with itself and others. And they don’t always just fold up nicely into their useful structure, requires chaperone proteins that facilitate that process as well as other proteins they interact with to get it so the free energy is sufficiently low in that local minimum that is the “correct” structure for function.

How we look at and interpret consciousness could all be a cargo cult mentality. We might not be on the route at all. Just making it appear like it.

I think a good example is the fast food industry. That went from “low skilled”/“entry level” to rapidly being replaced and will be completely replaced in 5 years. How quickly will that snowball roll up to “high skilled” labor. Imagine all farming, fast food, grocery stores, all that stuff is 5 years from being automated away from people.

Reminds me of the old saying “learn this math, you’re not gonna have a calculator at (insert location, grocery store)” not to say knowing math is useless and we shouldn’t do it. But now we all have calculators with us at all times. Or learning how to use a physical library Dewey decimal system is completely unnecessary. When I remember all of this stuff being important when I was a kid just 15 years ago.