Yep. The same argument was put forward against chess engines - that they didn't really play chess! All they did was search all possibilities and spat out the "b

Yep. The same argument was put forward against chess engines - that they didn't really play chess! All they did was search all possibilities and spat out the "best" outcome based on some scoring system. And yet, these engines have beaten the best humans. The forms underneath intelligence, or thinking, doesn't matter. The outcome is what matters.