Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?

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A lot of times I hear terms such as these thrown around in the context of some quasi-religious, pseudoscientific assertion about telepathy or the placebo effect or the run-of-the-mill con-artist masquerading as a "card-reader" or "healer." I'm not really interested in these silly charlatans. I want to talk about the idea of Universal Conscious or Intelligence in a philosophical context, as a notion that logically proceeds from the realization that there really isn't an external world that is fundamentally separate from the mind. That is because the mind is itself a product of the external world, just another feature that arose from atomic interactions. In the sense that we are all part of the larger Cosmos, perhaps analogous to the cells that comprise one brain, it seems at least that something like a Universal Conscious or Intelligence can be made into an intelligible framework... no?

Just because the mind is a natural product of the universe doesn't mean they are in close contact. My car is a product of Toyota but I don't think they speak together.

We appear to have largely, if not entirely, independent minds from each other - let alone from other parts of the cosmos.