Re:Oblig. (Score 1)

I completely agree with this assessment. There is in the IT crowd a certain group of people that seem to think that intelligence is digital or can be mocked up by digital manipulation of various unknown systems. Real intelligence, i.e., the ability to know that one is knowing and to reflect upon that process requires a kind of identity that the IT enthusiasts (I was going to say pinheads) completely miss. If this capacity is ever duplicated it will have to be at the quantum level and will involve processes completely unknown today. I suspect that this won't be doable for another 200 or 300 years. The section of the IT movement that focuses on machine intelligence would do well to study metaphysics and particularly ontology and the dynamics of epistemology. Trying to grasp intelligence without studying the conclusions of centuries of thinkers before them is short-sighted and ignorant.