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Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
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RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
(May 16, 2014 at 8:21 am)ChadWooters Wrote: And the additional burden for monism is explaining why some neural systems are associated with consciousness and others are not. There is clearly an additional process beyond just neural activity.

I think you are skirting dangerously close to the fallacy of composition here. The experimental evidence for NCC isn't invalidated because some neural networks cannot be shown to contribute to conscious events.
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RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer... - by Cato - May 16, 2014 at 9:29 am

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