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

[Cato]

Because Von Neuman brought consciousness into physics with the orthodox interpretation. As Henry Stapp explains, big things, like biological systems, are made from small things, like atoms. The measurement problem requires an observer that sits outside the physical system in which the wave collapse occurs. The Copenhagen interpretation is a pragmatic approach that glosses over the underlying ontological reality. If you want to understand consciousness you must look to the orthodox interpretation.

Name dropping von Neuman and Stapp quickly leads to the unsupported conclusion that God did it.

The idea that consciousness is required for wave function collapse immediately presents a problem, how did the universe operate before the biological evolution of consciousness? Either consciousness isn't required for wave function collapse or a pre-evolutionary conscious, for which there is zero evidence, must be conjured into existence.

The real problem is that people reflexively and wrongly anthropomorphize observer in QM. This is how the idea of consciousness becomes a nuisance and useless stowaway on the Goodship QM.