The speaker suggests that machines might discover consciousness in a way analogous to infant brains if they are limited to self-organizing learning and given suitable tasks in a sufficiently large search space.

“So if we basically limit today's machines in such a way that they con- can only learn in self-organizing ways, and we give them tasks that are suitable in the large enough search space, then it might be possible that these machines discover consciousness in the same way as the brain of the infant discovers it.”