Intelligence and consciousness are dissociable properties.

Evidence

Watts pushes a radical philosophical claim: that intelligence and consciousness are dissociable, with profound implications for AI safety. For scholarship on alignment, philosophy of mind, and AI risk, Blindsight is a frequently cited literary text—a rigorous narrative challenge to anthropocentric assumptions about machine cognition. — , The Braided Reading EPUB, 543

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: is the dissociation thesis itself sound, and which AI-safety positions does it actually threaten or support?
• XREF: connects to: Certain philosophical problems like the mind–body problem may be fundamentally unknowable by humans due to cognitive closure. — Cognitive closure (philosophy); Science has failed to adequately answer how human consciousness developed or what it actually is. — No, Science Can’t Answer the Biggest Questions of Life and Existence