The Argument for Artificial Intelligence

I've had people over the last few years say to me I understand consciousness and I've got a theory of consciousness great can you write a program for it so that the computer can be conscious. claim in the same way we can test whether or not they have an understanding of a physical process of any other physical process in physics namely by programming a computer with their with their theory. There's also this vision that some people have of artificial intelligence that it's something like a list of all the possible things that people can do now. i think this is very very wrong fundamentally wrong It doesn't matter how long your list is the list will always be finite and it will never be able to accommodate something