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I didn't say that computers are incapable...I said that they are not intelligent.  There is a difference between computational power and intelligence.  Computers are able to compute vast amounts of data, but they are incapable of understanding even the most basic elements of their surroundings.  A cockroach can assess its surroundings, find food, find a mate, navigate, and  perceive a threat and plan its escape, and act in a split second....a computer, even the most advanced computer array on earth would be left in the dust in the intelligence department by a cockroach.  Computers require vast amounts of code, provided by a human, to perform even basic tasks and you can't write enough code at this point for a computer to have even a rudimentary "understanding" of its surroundings....they may be able to identify basic shapes but can't begin to understand how those shapes relate to its environment.