>Actually, that was my biggest problem with the entire article.

For me it was the opposite. It was one of the only redeeming qualities of the article.

>It's a false dichotomy to assume that consciousness and intelligence aren't the same thing, if one cannot meaningfully articulate how they differ.

I think the difference can be articulated clearly. Intelligence is the capacity to create structures and processes that are isomorphic to the world "out there". It's the capacity to grasp the world. Consciousness is the phenomenological space of experience. It might turn out that it's a false dichotomy but it's a logically valid distinction. It's much easier to logically talk about the former than the latter. We can build logically consistent models of the former while only providing hand wavey explanations of the latter.