[knodi123]

But, take for instance, sight. Sighted people use a large percentage of their brain to process visual input. People born congenitally blind are no smarter or dumber for their brains not having to process that input- so clearly that's not the secret sauce.

I'm not convinced consciousness is emergent, I don't really have an opinion on _that_- but I'm > 50% convinced that consciousness itself doesn't require a neural network as large as a human brain's.