No harm, no foul; I look forward to seeing your edit - when you do delete the edit thing and I will delete this bit. As for this post - I’m done now.
I am in no way suggesting that the drive to explore and the resulting curiosity is equivalent in lizards and humans. There is a continuum and this is clearly more developed in humans. Some of this is cultural and not in the hardware. I offer the example of speech and all it bring to the human mental machinery. Without speech and the mental tricks it brings you lack the ability to form and manipulate certain mental constructs.
I do see AGI as far more than curiosity; I see that AGI will be a cluster of traits that must be taken together to seem intelligent.
- Intentionallity.
- build in behaviors to act as a framework for development.
- Memory. (it seems that several kinds will be needed)
- Task switching (with a minimum set of goals)
- Self awareness.
- Emotions of some sort (necessary for judgement)
- I’m sure if you think about it you will add a few more things to this list.
I have been posting on various aspect of this for a long time on these topics in this forum. I posted pointers to about half of them in this thread.
You may also want to read the thread " Two Types of Hierarchies". There is some discussion relevant to this topic there.
As far as the “AH ha” experience, see Global Neuronal Workspace.
To see this in it’s proper place, see this post.