Why AGI Cannot Emerge From Data: Embodied Learning, Metacognitive Drive, and the Non-Copyable Mind
Current LLM scaling is hitting a ceiling — not because compute is scarce, but because text is a description of the world, not an experience of it. Real AGI requires embodied perception, intrinsic curiosity as a core drive, and self-directed exploration. Release 2000 robots with no task. Some will find their own path. The ones that arrive cannot be copied — their weights are the product of lived experience, not training data.
