There are no properties of matter or energy that can have a sense of self or experience qualia. Yet we all do. Denying the hard problem of consciousness just slows down our progress in discovering what it is.
Consciousness is not computation. You need something else.
On the flip side: If you do that, YOU are conscious and intelligent.
Would it mean that the machine that did the computation became conscious when it did it?
What is consciousness?
Consciousness is what it "feels like" when a part of the universe is engaged in local entropy reduction. You heard it here first, folks!