Re:Intelligent Beings (Score 1)

You're putting the cart before the horse. Until you explain what "consciousness" is and how you know we have it, why should I accept what you say? Simply claiming that everything I think and dream is part of my consciousness, without showing it exists or even precisely defining it, does not make it so. To get back to the main discussion, once you get me a precise testable definition of what we're discussing, then we can really start talking. Of course, once that's done, there will be no reason to believe that a brain made out of silicon is any less capable of achieving it than a brain made out of carbon.