My exposure to these subjects has been limited, but the thing that I liked about Dan Dennets rebuttal to Chalmers is that it does away with the special-ness of

My exposure to these subjects has been limited, but the thing that I liked about Dan Dennets rebuttal to Chalmers is that it does away with the special-ness of consciousness. It is more likely that consciousness is just a property of brains inside bodies. The interesting question to me is the level of complexity of brain and body required to produce something like what we experience and what is it like in other arrangements of brains and bodies. I also don't know that intelligence is the great thing that we think it is. It's an adaptation. It's an adaptation that lots of other organisms survive just fine without.