Most people have an understanding of what intelligence is, or at least agree on what intelligent behavior is. While everybody might not agree 100% on what constitutes intelligent behavior, I assume that we do not need a definition for intelligence because most views of it overlap to a large degree. Humans have it, rocks do not, & there is a lot of controversy over where to draw the line between all entities or objects which have intelligence and all that do not. If you need to discuss or define what intelligence is, please start another Thread.

Consciousness is a bit trickier. It is often described or defined as awareness of self. I like to think that my life experiences are like a movie being watched or a book being read, with my consciousness being the viewer or the reader.

When I ski, play tennis, play chess, pursue a female, write a program, solve a mathematical problem, et cetera, there are instinctive activities and intelligent activities involved in accomplishing what I am doing. There is also an entity (my consciousness) which has thoughts like: I am enjoying what I am doing, or I wish I were doing something else, or I am doing this well/poorly. I hope we do not need more discussion of what consciousness is.

When Deep Blue was playing chess versus Gary Kasporov, there was no part of the system that was viewing the movie or reading the book about playing Kasporov.

Most people would consider chess playing as intelligent behavior. Yet Deep Blue shows that it can be done without consciousness.