There's the argument that any AI built on silicon is doomed to be analogous to the Chinese Room* because it is reducible to its parts.

It's interesting that I am also reducible to my atomic parts.

I may be a Chinese Room that has not yet experienced fully looking down at my self. I don't have enough self-recursive input yet to see through the illusion.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Chinese_room_thou...