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4. intelligence and consciousness are independent axes and need not be conflated consciousness is about the experience of being. intelligence is about predictive computation. it is easy to assume one implies the other because the experience of being is certainly built on

adammaj @MajmudarAdam 4. intelligence and consciousness are independent axes and need not be conflated consciousness is about the experience of being. intelligence is about predictive computation. it is easy to assume one implies the other because the experience of being is certainly built on predictive computation (ex: your visual system taking in photons and computing each pixel color, depth, and position at each time step). but this is no reason to believe that all predictive computation has an experience. the deeper reason intelligence and consciousness are often conflated is that people i

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