[somewhereoutth]

In the grand scale of things, a computer is not much more than a fancy brick. Certainly it is much closer to a brick than to a human. So the question is more 'why should this particularly fancy brick have abilities that so far we have only encountered in humans?'

[derrak]

> Certainly it is much closer to a brick than to a human.

I disagree with this premise. A computer approximates a Turing Machine, which puts it far above a brick.

[somewhereoutth]

but still so so much further to go until you reach human.

[djeastm]

> fancy brick

If we're going to be reductionist we can just call humans "meat sacks" and flip the question around entirely.