This is all so totally ridiculous! (Score 1)

Okay, so I'm browsing a tech news page and come across al ink to this thread . It piques my interest and I start reading some of the posts. Then it occurs to me how totally stupid this whole thing is. People on this thread (and plenty more like it on this and a multitude of other sites) are arguing, debating, waxing poetic, philosophizing, etc., etc., about man-made, highly engineered chunks of crystal. How f'n stupid is that? I was a "car guy" at one time and we could bitch for hours about the relative merits of the Chevy vs. Ford thing. But I don't recall there being this huge pissing match over how the engines worked. If I'm not mistaken, there are no little elves that sneak into the labs at IBM and Intel at nigh and weave magical, unknown architecture into these chips. It's all plotted out very methodically by humans and computers (designed by the humans) running programs (also designed by the humans) and there is not AI or unknown natural intelligence involved. It's all there on the map. My main point is this: in the grand scheme of things, who cares! My god, people, put those big f'n brains to work on something really mysterious like the natural sciences, or something creative. Put some of that wasted effort into trying to figure out how your own thinker works. Now that's interesting and full of mysteries and possible explanations. This is not meant to be a troll post. Please don't take it as such. Just MHO.