Exactlyyyy-ish. I'm firmly in the camp that believes that there is no magic central kernel to consciousness or intelligence, that it's an emergent property. We are seeing partial emergence now and it's only going to get more complex.

Edit: this is may turning to a search for truth and definitions of reality question. When the last person alive is no longer able to tell whether they're speaking to an AI, does it actually matter whether it's true generalized intelligence or just an emergent approximation?