I have thought about this long and hard. There was a time in my life when I thought I could create something that had intelligence. Here are some of my thoughts

I have thought about this long and hard. There was a time in my life when I thought I could create something that had intelligence. Here are some of my thoughts. Intelligence isn't something that is instant, it is something that is acquired. To acquire intelligence, the being must have an environment in which to interact and learn. My idea was to mimic the way that animals and plants become adaptive to their environment. They all can die, and only the strong survive. So, each being, or thread, would have the ability to die. Well, what happens if they all die? Then the experiment would be over and that wouldn't be fun would it. So, threads would also have to have the ability to reproduce. And, what good would it be if all the threads were the same? They must be able to mutate. What about intelligence? Forget intelligence, it just represents the ability to survive. All the threads will die off that can't survive anyways, so what we are left with is a pool of survivors. Uh oh. The environment exists in a virtual realm. So my threads wont be very beneficial in the real world realm that you and I live in. We need eyes and ears into the real world. OK, no problem, we will purchase cameras to capture light, and microphones for sound. Now we have a money issue. I may be able to afford a couple hundred micro controllers, microphones, and cameras. Not bad for a little expirement, but wait "Scientists estimate that there are one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) ants living on the earth at any given time." according to hypertextbook.com http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/AlisonOngvorapong.shtml http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/AlisonOngvorapong.shtml. How can my intelligence be smarter than an ant, if there are this many ants, who are trying to survive, and have the ability to reproduce and mutate? I don't think I can. I began thinking about this more and more. We would have to speed up the evolution of our intelligent being. What are different things we could do to speed it up? Perhaps we could create more mutations, but not too many, we don't wont our bot to become extinct. Oh crap, how is it going to reproduce? I totally forgot about that. Each of our species would have to have an electronics factory built inside it. I know the solution, don't try to create your own intelligence. You can create as much ARTIFICIAL intelligence like search engines all you want, but this is not intelligence in any way shape of form. It looks like intelligence, but it is not. To achieve truly something more intelligent than a human, you will need to take what nature has already created and mutated, and then provide environment enhancements(schools?). There I said it. Schools and all theses GNC drugs that are supposed to make your brain function at an increasing rate. I am afraid we are already trying to become more intelligent every single day in the world. And yes, it is working, but we can only work as fast as nature allows us. On a closing note, Computers will never be able to think like a human, because they cannot reproduce. Nature is much more efficient.