Consciousness and intelligence are not explicitly related. Consciousness co-opts intelligence as a survival strategy. Transistors are like switch boards and in

Consciousness and intelligence are not explicitly related. Consciousness co-opts intelligence as a survival strategy. Transistors are like switch boards and index cards. Rearranging these can produce intelligence superior to human capacity. Intelligence as inference may be statistically devised, and deduction may be combinatorially brute forced (over enough tries/long enough time line). The relationship of information and intelligence are like memetics to consciousness. Consciousness is attracted to possibilities of outcomes and novelty. I think consciousness is the material potential of the universe (as bound in our electro-chemical neurons) evolving through life technology to perceive and interact with itself (the rest of the universe.) In this way quantum computers may be closer to consciousness than classical transistors will ever be (which is more like rearranging a vast deck of cards.)