Is There a Materialist Vision of Strong Artificial Intelligence?

I think the way to think of it is that the materialist has a very, very limited set of tools. So Ramashandran, for instance, who does write great kind of popular, well-written stuff on neuroscience,. All he's got is physics, basically. And actually, physics itself doesn't make sense for materialists either. What's a physical law? But still, so what's he going to do? He's going to probably use phase changes to explain things like the shift from biology to consciousness or something like that. I'm here in Flatland in two-dimensional world, and I'm trying to explain a four-dimensional world. I don't have anything