alt Hacker NewsIt's hardly an unreasonable supposition: the one definitely conscious entities we know of are also the apex intelligence of the planet.
To put it another way: lots of things are conscious, but humans are definitely the most conscious beings on Earth.
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CuriouslyC • 11/03/2025
I can understand what less cognizant or self aware means, but "less conscious" is confusing. What are you implying here? Are their qualia lower resolution?
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But that's not an answer. Why should intelligence and not some other quality be coupled to consciousness? In my experience, consciousness (by which I'm specifically talking about qualia/experience/awarenesss) doesn't at all seem tightly coupled to intelligence. Certainly not in a way that seems obvious to me.