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Isn't the ability to learn one of the major tenets of intelligence, artificial or organic? I do not think anyone would dare triumph their "Artificial Intelligence" program that they created as AI if it was simply a system that contained programs for dealing with situations, that needed a new program for every situation.

The argument appears to be that only organic intelligence is capable of learning. I do not understand how that could be true. Why would any intelligent entity repeat an act that was disfavorable, especially if there was no reason to think anything different would occur on a second occasion?

If intelligence can be done in organic form, why could that not be replicated? In fact, when the aliens transfer their consciousness to medals, is that not intelligence in an artificial form? It takes their minds from a form that needs resources to live, to a form that can be plugged into a robot.

What I find when I closely examine how the mind works, it appears to be but a program, with a brain for hardware.
(I realize the next part of the post is fairly long, and I fear not particularly clear. It is a thing I typically would have to talk with someone in person to properly convey, so you may want to just skip to the last paragraph)

When examined, it would appear that everything is calculable by chaos theory. Everything from the flip of a coin to a person's thoughts and actions is calculable. At first glance, one may consider the flip of a coin to be a completely random event- 50% odds heads. However, when one accounts for all of the factors, or the forces effecting each individual atom; initial velocity, air resistance, exact toss height and catch height, gravity, etc, it becomes entirely possible to calculate which side the coin will land on. This is because all chaos only exists when one does not have all of the factors.

It is our inability to instantly register all of the factors that effect each atom of one human's brain, and do the many quadrillions of highly complex equations instantly that keep us from knowing what others are thinking and what they are about to do.
If one could perform chaos theory on the entire universe, than one could calculate what was going to happen infinitely into the future or what happened infinitely into the past.
If the Universe were to start the same way it did this time, an infinite number of times, the same exact things would always happen because there is only one answer for each equation, and all of the same equations would come up in the same order.

Let’s try to apply this to humans. After born and developed by taking in atoms (food and air) and adding them to the prior atoms to build a person, one is left with a mass of dead atoms which are undergoing a reaction that we call life. This collection of tissues has a kind of processor called a brain. This brain is connected to the rest of the body, and takes in sensory information from the body's 5 senses. It takes these inputs, processes them, records them, and then, depending on the inputs, it may produces a set of out puts in the form of motor control.
So, when you read these words on this screen, your eyes are taking in this stimulus in the form of light. Your eyes then send this stimulus to your brain, which processes it with the transmissions of synapses in your neurons, and by it's pattern recognition abilities, sees the input as words it can decipher. These words and their meanings are also processed by a form of pattern recognition and a mechanism that allows you to tell different kinds of patterns apart.

What will this make you think? How will you react? If I could somehow perform chaos theory (a lot of complex measurements and equations instantly) on your brain, it would be as apparent as which side a coin would land on. Because each equation only has one answer, there is only one possible route for you to take in your thoughts and actions for a particular event. In that sense, on the atomic level, neither of us really thinks, so much as involuntarily processing information and involuntarily action on it. Kind of like how fire has no choice about it’s actions.

This is why the mind is like a program. They both take in information, and they are both wired to process it in some way. On the most basic level, neither the mind nor the program has any choice about their actions. They are both essentially electric mazes.

It is my argument that the internal workings of conscious analog intelligence are easily duplicated in the form of conscious digital intelligence. If tissue-based machines can have intelligence, so can a circuit based machines.
If my point about how minds are calculable wasn’t very clear, than consider this instead: what if someone made an artificial brain with little chips that perform the same roles as synapses and neurons etc. If for every 100 billion cells in a typical brain, this machine brain had 100 billion nano chips that each performed the same role as they would in their fleshy counter part. Is there any reason that the machine version would not have an exact duplicate in mind and thinking process as the meat brain? Why would it not forget stuff, get bored, or anything else that the flesh version does?