Is Consciousness More Important Than Intelligence?

In human beings and other animals, consciousness and intelligence go together to such an extent that many people think about them as the same thing. But they're actually quite different. It's the difference between intelligence and consciousness. In the case of computers and artificial intelligence, what we are seeing is amazing progress as far as intelligence goes without any progress whatsoever in consciousness. The first computers in the 1940s had absolutely no consciousness. And the most advanced computers today have also no consciousness whatsoever. They can beat you at chess or the game of gold or drive a car but they don't feel any joy, any fear, any hope. What this means is that whereas the evolution of organic beings relied on this coupling