what i'm thinking about this morning at work as i program a database

One way to view the difference between human subjectivity and artificial intelligence:

Whenever something new is added to a system, the system can't recognize it until it performs a "scan". Here's an object. Have I already encountered it before? Yes. Ok, then it's not new. Let's find another.

On the other hand, someone taps you on the shoulder. You recognize the impact instantly. In a sense, the tap became an inextricable part of your "field of subjectivity" the moment it happened -- or rather, it's "happening" (from your perspective) was the very event of it becoming an integral part of your subjectivity. The tap is immanent to your awareness.

This immanence of everything in the "field of subjective receptivity" is what cannot conceivably be simulated by an artificial process. Indeed, we probably can't explain how it happens in much the same way that we can't explain how "making sense" happens.