>>11865527Not true.
>>11865526How are you defining consciousness? If you mean self-awareness, I imagine it does correlate, but there are still lots of very self-aware people who are very dumb and very self-unaware people who are very smart. Pretty much just guessing, though.
Intelligence might also be able to help unlock a deeper or more "meta" form of self-awareness. Like "why do I think in this way" or "why do I think I should think in this way".
If you can make a genuine argument for something, and then later realize you were letting other things (emotions, biases, personal connections) get in the way and recognize the argument wasn't good and how and why, and admit you were wrong, that's probably a kind of self-awareness that's more often found in intelligent people than unintelligent people.
Dumb people generally stick to their guns and rely on post hoc rationalization (without being aware of either). Many smart people do, too, but dumb people usually stay like that for life, whereas smart people may look back on their younger selves and cringe when they realize what was really going on.
And the obvious corollary is that intelligence is way too multi-faceted to pin down. A self-aware person with a lower IQ than a not very self-aware high IQ person might be far better for particular jobs. IQ is meaningless if you can't be effective and successful when pursuing your actual goals.
