Intelligence and consciousness are likely orthogonal — though they may correlate in practice
austinc3301 · x · 2026-10-03
In a discussion with Taylor Lorenz and others, the author argues that intelligence and consciousness are probably orthogonal: systems can be highly intelligent yet non-sentient, and vice versa. He adds that in practice, several reasons may cause the two to end up correlated.
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