[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:

A more complex piece of tin will not become intelligent- intelligence is something limited to living systems, which a piece of tin is not. But a piece of tin CAN be made into something more complex that an uneducated person might not expect.

I see no reason that we someday can't create an intelligent machine.
If we understand the ways the human brain works we will propably be able to emulate it by using other technology. Emulating here doesn't mean that that machine will be less intelligent than a human, in the beginning it surely will but eventuall we will beable to improve it.
When this will happen is impossible to say but that it will happen is most likely.