Unconscious Artificial Intelligence II

There is a common misconception that computers (will) become conscious merely by becoming better - faster and more efficient - computers. This is the mistaken identification of "intelligence" with consciousness. See here.

An increase in computational power is a quantitative change whereas the emergence of consciousness in organisms was a qualitative change. As Hegel argued, some, although not all, quantitative changes cause, become or appear as qualitative changes, but not just as any qualitative change:

if the temperature of a liquid quantitatively increases to above the boiling point for that liquid, then the liquid is qualitatively changed into gas;

naturally selected organismic sensitivity to environmental alterations quantitatively increased until it was qualitatively transformed into conscious sensation, then some conscious organisms became intelligent;

thus, in organic evolution, consciousness preceded intelligence, not vice versa.