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The right question about consciousness "can machines be conscious?" distracts from: "what new level of consciousness will machines attain?" Larger brains gave early African hominids a selective advantage they enabled social relations with 150-200 others language, social emotions (liking, guilt, shame, etc) Super-intelligent machines will have social relations with billions The Internet plus intelligence Metcalf's Law: value of network proportional to square of size so monopoly super-intelligent server(s) One degree of separation introduce you to your ideal mate Understand thoughts and interactions of billions of humans in one of its thoughts Insights of Euclid, Newton, Darwin and Einstein in every thought