> But who's to say humans are any different than simple databases with probability and statistics firing neurons??

Nobody has said they're simple databases, they would obviously be complex databases.

Some of them are very much like this. They think *intelligence* is a measure of your ability to regurgitate data that you have been fed. A genius is someone who wins on Jeopardy.

In engineering school, it was easy to spot the professors who taught this way. I avoided them like the plague.