> Yes, but intelligence isn't magic either. What's your point? Nobody said it's magic. The fact that it isn't magic (and that its tremendous complexity far sur

> Yes, but intelligence isn't magic either. What's your point? Nobody said it's magic. The fact that it isn't magic (and that its tremendous complexity far surpasses our current ability to understand it) supports the notion that it won't suddenly spring into existence. If we placed some primordial sludge in a petrie dish overnight, we wouldn't worry that a sentient creature will have materialized. And if we program a computer to optimize numerical functions, there is just as little evidence (perhaps less), to suggest that the computer will somehow gain sentience.