(July 4, 2016 at 8:24 am)Alex K Wrote: Well, humans are a part of the universe, so whatever they have, the Universe has as well by definition, so there's nothing controversial there. The real question is whether (human) consciousness is a result of the interactions of matter or transcends them somehow and is something more fundamental. Your wording begs the question that it is the latter, so what you have done here is combined one trivial claim with a bare assertion which needs to be demonstrated first.
Congratulation Alex.
Among all the garbage of replies yours is the only one that has got some sense.
Some sense only not full sense however.
Suppose the universe doesn't have a mind behind it.
Just matter, water, energy, air and space.
How do you think that such a material composition can create something so much more superior as the
mind-consciousness in humans?
If you think so then you also can say that a chicken can give birth to a human.
It is always the great that is able to create the small not the other way around.