I agree with you completely. This whole question of artificial intelligence presumes that intelligence is even a thing, and not just some form fitting for predi

I agree with you completely. This whole question of artificial intelligence presumes that intelligence is even a thing, and not just some form fitting for predictive reasoning that happens to be closely aligned to the well-being of the larger organism (human society). The equivalent in silicon is functions fitting whatever purpose, but not strongly, for no particular reason except that they have been able to exist within that context across many, many, years. The efficiency of a function may not be efficient, but it hasn’t been selected against…yet. That “DNA” source code might include a lot of cruft, but who cares as long as it works and people will download it anyway?