Dreyfus, 1972: "it is not possible to capture expert knowledge in an algorithm"

Just in my very first attempts to draft the main idea of my theses I wanted to know why people refer to a computer program (de) as a knowledge storage. Since Wikipedia (de) didn't give much of help there I quickly searched the web. I found:

"Dreyfus illustrates his claims with references to the problems faced by AI researchers who attempted to codify expert knowledge into computer programs. The success or failure here really has little to do with the computing machinery, but with whether expert competence in the domain in question can be captured in an algorithmic procedure. In certain well-circumscribed domains this has succeeded; but more often than not, argues Dreyfus, it is not possible to capture expert knowledge in an algorithm, particularly where it draws upon general background knowledge outside the problem domain."   (source)

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