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    6 months ago

    You’re right that consciousness and intelligence are not the same. Our language tends to conflate the two.

    However, evolution created consciousness over billions of years by emergent factors and no source of specific direction besides being more successful at reproduction. We can likely get there orders of magnitude faster than evolution could. The big problem would be recognizing it for what it is when it’s here.