It appears that most basic drives and even the most complex of conscious thinking derives ultimately from IFTT so what is consciousness if not IFTT and the drive that comes from biology gives us desires with perhaps some neurological quantum randomness thrown in.
I'm not making the topic to be clever or difficult, I just listened to a 3 hour talk on AI and was listening to the MIT speaker being utterly uninspired at ideas of how we can ever go from what is essentially just evolved 20 year old machine learning to some new form of general intelligence.