>>541869
I'd like to interject with you for a moment but what you're referring to as intelligence is in fact sentience/intelligence or, as I've recently taken to calling it, sentience + intelligence. Intelligence is not a way of thinking unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning sentient being as defined by Jeremy Bentham.
Many people are sentient every day without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of sentience which is widely used today is often called intelligence, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically just sentience that reasons analytically.
There really is an intelligence, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the mind they use. Intelligence is an essential part of a mind, but not as useful by itself; it can only be that impressive in the context of a fully sentient mind. Intelligence is normally used in combination with sentience: the whole mind is basically sentience with intelligence added, or sentience/intelligence. All the so called hard AIs are really artificial sentient beings!