Just as an example of what you're saying: a few posts up the index, there was an article on intelligence and language in dolphins. Dolphins are practically our

Just as an example of what you're saying: a few posts up the index, there was an article on intelligence and language in dolphins. Dolphins are practically our cousins --- they're social mammals living in much the same world we do, and a lot of their behaviour maps directly onto ours. But they're so alien to us that we're still arguing about whether they are intelligent, low alone how much. If we can't even communicate effectively with them, what chance have we with a machine intelligence with which we have nothing whatsoever in common, not even time and space?