You're conflating consciousness with intelligence. The two are not the same.
One is the experience of qualia, and the ability to hold preferences.
The other is the behaviors associated with making predictions and intentionally manipulating the world to achieve tasks.
We have a hyper-intelligent chess engines that cannot be argued to be conscious. We also have small mammalian minds, like Koalas, that are dumb as a brick, but are very likely conscious.
One is the experience of qualia, and the ability to hold preferences.
The other is the behaviors associated with making predictions and intentionally manipulating the world to achieve tasks.
We have a hyper-intelligent chess engines that cannot be argued to be conscious. We also have small mammalian minds, like Koalas, that are dumb as a brick, but are very likely conscious.