The issue I have with your statement is that I don't see why we are special? What about our machinery makes us any more fit to be intelligent than a hunk of doped silicon? I mean, it all seems to come down to electrons flowing through (meat or metal) circuits. Of course, whether or not you feel the same way might partially depend on your religious beliefs. I guess I just don't see anything special about our wetware that couldn't be reproduced on silicon (eventually).