The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Can machines become sentient (self-aware)

What's a recursive simulaion? What makes a complex system 'very highly resolved'? What are the subunits? How are they 'combined'? Where does the criteria for improvement come from?I don't know shit about this shit Okay, I did a quick google on "recursive simulation" and found:

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Recursive simulation involves a simulation, or an entity in the simulation, creating another instance of the same simulation, running it and using its results.

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How's that work? Do they "layer" the simulations or are they more like "side by side"? I took one computer science course and just hated it. On top of that, my stuff never compiled well They musta ousted me from lack of participation.I guess I'll make another one. But I didn't like getting my ass handed to me in chess. Also, I've been playing this goofy brower based RPG. Although, the good thing about those chess games is that the timeframe is all up to yourself.

Seems to me like you'd need the sentience to form the sufficient social grouping and visa versa. A catch-22.But once the ball started rolling, they'd feed off each other and you'd get the snowball effect that we seem to be the result of.