Intelligence uncoupling from consciousness

Throughout human history intelligence and consciousness have been linked, Yuval Noah Harari in Homo Deus states that currently we can see intelligence decoupling from consciousness. The link between consciousness and intelligence has been the marker of humans difference from others forms of life, the animals and plants we think of as below us in evolutionary terms. Intelligence also defines a humans worth in the market place.

Intelligence emerged on a trajectory emanating in the west from greek thought becoming a defining character in the scientific…