I meant to say that they have the same root - you can think of consciousness as (collective) intelligence put to use in a particular domain: the self, or the "w

I meant to say that they have the same root - you can think of consciousness as (collective) intelligence put to use in a particular domain: the self, or the "what it is like to be". If certain basic units of the collective intelligence contribute to that sense of self, you can get consciousness. consciousness.social aims to provide a living example of that.