Whenever one hears about progress in the field of artificial intelligence, it’s tempting to ask some embarrassing questions. What about when human beings aren’t intelligent? What about our shifting moods, stubbornness, blind spots, resistance and denial? The mind is notoriously perverse as well as inspired. Perhaps artificial intelligence will never reach its goal until a computer is presented with a baffling problem and its answer is, “Go away. I have a headache.”
The same holds true for a theory of consciousness, but doubly so. We can isolate a single quality of consciousness, label it ‘intelligence’, ...
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