Half of the human population has IQs less than 100. Many people live in a stimulus-response cycle so they appear to be no more conscious or self-aware than a racoon. Simulating that type of behavior would be relatively easy for an AI, but that would not give it consciousness
LOL... “Half of the human population has IQs less than 100.”
That is true by definition. An IQ of 100 is the average and the peek of the Bell Curve distribution.