Mind over machine : the power of human intuition and expertise in the era of the computer Human intuition and perception are basic and essential phenomena of consciousness. As such they will never be replicated by computers. This is the challenging notion of Hubert Dreyfus Ph.D. archcritic of the artificial intelligence establishment. Its important to emphasize that he doesnt believe that AI is fundamentally impossible only that the current research program is fatally flawed. Instead he argues that to get a device (or devices) with human like intelligence would require them to have a human like being in the world which would require them to have bodies more or less like ours and social acculturation (i.e. a society) more or less like ours. This helps to explain the practical problems in implementing artificial intelligence algorithms.