What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body

[bennyboy]

Not at all, and it's not a composition fallacy.  It's just something I'd been wondering about, why mind is intrinsic to the universe is one case (quantum fields, matter, what have you) ... but not the other.  A digital camera is less than a brain...but not any less comprised of or derived from the other (the universe, quantum fields, matter).

Okay, I call it a composition fallacy because if quantum interchanges, like the absorption of a photon into an atom, represent the minimal element of mind, then a camera is full of mind, or rather of mental events. That does not mean that it itself HAS a mind, in the same way that people do-- and much for the reasons everyone here talks about-- the complex integration of brain function into the sense of coordinated experience in a subjective agent.

The thing that some don't get is that I agree with VERY much of what people are saying in this thread-- the interest in how neurology affects our qualitative experience, for example. However, everything that happens in the brain happens elsewhere, though in differing degrees and on different scales.

Now, I consider your hypothesis (I believe you most favor IIT right?) a serious contender for reality. But I do not have sufficient evidence to be confident that it is right, and I do not believe we have the capacity to collect evidence without making philosophical assumptions that beg the question anyway.