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I think having the clutch pedal not mechanically linked to an actual clutch would not feel quite right. Much like power steering.. since the introduction of power steering, they've tried many times to make it entirely 'fly by wire', where the power steering simply controlled electronic input to a processor which handled the steering angle. But everyone who tries it thinks that it feels 'unnatural' because you don't get the 'feel of the road' through the wheel - that back pressure (and force feedback) is pretty essential for feeling grip and the tightness of corners, etc. In the same way, having an essentially aesthetic pedal that was linked to the manumatic only by electronics would not feel quite right. The engagement and disengagement of the plates would not be felt, and the tactile response of meshing the gears would be totally lost. To me, that's half the fun of driving a manual transmission.
I'll admit that automatic transmissions are still a bit of voodoo to me, but I can't think of a way to provide actual movement of gears and engage/disengage in a tactile way like you get with a manual transmission without simply removing all of the hydraulics, valves, and planetary gearsets that make automatic transmissions work in the first place. At that point, it'd simply be just a manual transmission.
IC is an abbreviation for integrated circuit, by the way.
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