Re: Or to put it another less dystopian way...
"That kind of vitalist bullshit is trotted out regularly as the last refuge of the denialists (I found that they also start to blabber about God or equally bizarre concepts in the next minute) but it's not true."
Whatever it is you're smoking I suggest you partake somewhat less of it.
Its a machine. It doesn't have any intelligence, it just blindly follows a list of instructions. The instructions were written by one or more programmers. THEY are the ones with the intelligence.
Educate yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room