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I don't really want to get involved in a discussion on where the fine dividing line is between intelligence and non-intelligence. We are fine determining intelligence at the extremes, but not in the large shades of grey in-between.

Most people (say, 999999 out of every 1000000) will consider a rock unintelligent and Stephen hawking to be intelligent. You can't call them wrong because "they cannot define intelligence".

> If we just started simulating neurons in a brain exactly, what would prevent us from achieving inorganic intelligence in your view?

Nothing. But the word "If" is doing all the heavy lifting in that argument. I mean, we aren't doing that at the moment, are we? It's not clear that we might ever discover exactly how the collection of neurons we call a brain "exactly works".

IOW, if the human brain was simpler, we'd be too simple to understand it: this may already be the case!

And the evidence for "we may not figure out how the brain works exactly enough to clone the mechanism it uses" is a lot larger than "we might figure out how the brain works well enough to clone the mechanism it uses."

This is why I remain unconvinced. Even though I think your position is a reasonable one to hold, the opposite position is, IMHO, just as reasonable. It's got nothing to do with religion or superstition.



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