[ajmurmann]

I think we are talking past each other on a few things.

1. I should have been cheater. I want necessarily referring to physical ability, but cognitive. This might need navigation skills or pattern recognition, certain types of memory. A sibling comment linked an interesting article that had concrete experiments in which chimps outdid humans in certain games.

2. I thought this discussion was about general AI not consciousness. I suspect these two are related, but don't know. I suspect that anything that processes information might be conscious, but don't know. I'm even open to the idea that plants, my laptop or even a photo cell might be conscious. I would be shocked of we found that mammals aren't. But this is now closer to religion than anything else, since we cannot disproof that something has consciousness.