> maybe there isn't a need for consciousness? I absolutely agree with that and I guess my comment was not clear. It is common in AI discussions to see the (usu

> maybe there isn't a need for consciousness? I absolutely agree with that and I guess my comment was not clear. It is common in AI discussions to see the (usually implicit) assumption that to create AI we have to create consciousness which I think is an unwarranted assumption. Nevertheless to the degree that intelligence is an attribute of consciousness, I think we need to understand consciousness at least well enough to recreate that attribute in a computer. Whether doing that requires consciousness or not remains to be seen (we don't know) but I suspect not.