>Given that we do not even know how consciousness works in our brains, I don't think we have the answer yet. I'm not sure it's plausible to make such an assumpt

>Given that we do not even know how consciousness works in our brains, I don't think we have the answer yet. I'm not sure it's plausible to make such an assumption. Possibly a fair argument, but I think the opposite would be just as valid then. That you can't assume that consciousness IS a requirement for intelligence. It seems hard to argue that you don't need some intelligence for consciousness, there seems to be a kind of minimum. We can already see that narrow intelligences for Vision, NLP, game playing, etc are at or above human level and no one claims these systems are conscious. So why should we assume that some meta system of these already existing systems would be?