In 1996 Gary Kasparov, the chess grandmaster played IBM's computer DEEP Blue in chess. The first game was won by DEEP Blue, then Gary gained 3 wins and two draws. So what is intelligence? Is it just computational? Just a year later an updated version of Deep Blue was able to defeat Kasparov easily. So what is different about our consciousness compared to that of a computer's?

To be economical to the point of libel, I'd like to argue that we have two pillars of consciousness. That of intentionality and another of phenomenology. Intentionality is based on reason and calculation, motives, desires and goals. Phenomenology is based on feelings, emotions, and perceptions.

What DEEP Blue lacks are parts of intentionality and phenomenology completely. It's calculates, but does so in the dark, unconsciously. It follows electrical impulses that are governed by a code given to it by an intelligent designer, the programmer. That is to say, it doesn't know how to PLAY the game of chess, play it in the sense that it never wants it to end , much like we never want the game of life to ever end. It's fun, sad, sorrowful, surprising and unexpected. These are things all wrapped up in our phenomenological side of our humanity that make life worth living!

My mind will be lobotomized to this side and what will be left is the intentional side. So what will make life worth living? What made life worth living for DEEP Blue? It had no feeling. When I'm on this stuff nothing really matters. Did anything matter to DEEP Blue, would it matter if the plug was pulled?