Processing data also means establishing its value. Feed a critical thinker crap, it will tell you it's crap.

You are probably speaking about the stochastic models we have been accustomed to - and already for them there are emergent properties of critical thinking. I directly expressed that the next step must be an explicit application of critical thinking to the re-processing of the data.

Many people insist in indirectly demonstrating the dire need we have for large amounts of additional intelligence in the system. Already the automation of trivial corrections in debate has critical value. Some authors have pushed for this for decades...