Not at all. I have one right here, right inside my head!

What you’re essentially saying is that brains work by magic, and that that magic cannot be reproduced by technology — but you don’t offer any actual argument except “Feelings are hard!”

I am personally skeptical that today’s machine learning will be tomorrow’s strong AI. It might be that we never get strong AI — because we destroy our civilization before we have time to make it, or simply because it’s too hard for humans, or even conceivably because, like you claim, there is some magic non-technology component that we can’t ever build.

But just pointing at experiences and saying, “That can’t happen with a computer,” doesn’t prove anything.

I would also add that it’s not like cognitive scientists didn’t think of this argument — they did, fifty years ago, and probably the most famous argument along these lines is almost forty years old — Searle’s Chinese Room (the link contains both the arguments for it, and the rebuttals — these days, most people don’t believe in that Chinese Room any more, so the rebutting side is winning…)

That said, that was a nicely-written little article of yours that says a lot about what it’s like to be conscious, and I enjoyed it immensely.

EDIT: I am reminded of this review of a favorite computer programming book of mine:

I read the book on vacation while my wife and I were staying at my father’s home in Sag Harbor New York and it was one of the most incredible intellectual adventures of my life. I’ll never forget the smell of the sea and the sand and the logic going off like lightning flashes inside my brain.