AI versus Mind

This comment was written in response to an article in Prospect magazine:
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/the-ai-delusion-why-humans-trump-machines-robots-artificial-intelligence-alpha-go-deepmind-marcus-davis-koch-mitchell-review

Whilst the entire article is interesting, in all honesty it mostly rehearses what many people already know. However, the final clause opens the door to newer enquiry: what is it to feel / experience (e.g.  the colour red, middle C, pain, reward)? Machines do not experience the imperative of motivation, of fear, of fear of death, or of  yearning desire. I have no doubt that the manifestations of these could be algorithmised, but that would be to miss the point. Even an amoeba behaves as though it does not like a toxic environment. A machine that was capable of fearing its own demise / death, and was capable of resisting that outcome could then be programmed with many of the attributes we think of as belonging to life.