[handmodel]

fwiw I do not really see how problem solving intelligence correlates to consciousness. I think it is a bit of a stretch to think we only evolved consciousness to guess how other people will react. I don't think our theory of evolution or theory of neuroscience points to that strongly at all.

I think children are conscious, mentally slow people are conscious, and I am conscious when inebriated even though a large group of people in any of those categories would never be able to solve large engineering problems.

I used to have a viewpoint more similar to yours but after spending more time around animals (at least birds and mammals) they honestly seem to have most of the same instincts as humans.

[munificent]

I think you misread my comment. My point is that it isn't problem solving that leads to consciousness. It's social reasoning. It's theory of mind, applied to ourselves.

Children, mentally slow people, and drunks, are all still capable of social reasoning.