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

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Other than misdirection, I'm not clear why people keep bringing physics in to this. Consciousness has only ever been observed/measured/recorded in living creatures with some sort of brain. Fact. That makes this a question for biologists not physicists. Everything else is just misdefinition of terms in an attempt to support supernatural and unfalsifiable speculation.

I would actually say this is a question for cognitive scientists. Neuroscientists are generally terrible in explaining consciousness at all, but cognitive scientists are trained to draw on half a dozen fields (philosophy (of mind and of language), linguistics, A.I., psychology, neuroscience, etc), so they're much more well equipped than any to answer the question of consciousness.

Oh, VERY FEW physicists accept that consciousness is involved in quantum mechanics. The "consciousness causes collapse position" got 6% of the 42% of adherents to the Copenhagen interpretation, which is like nothing. Those that do are nearly all woo peddlers, even among the trained physicists. It's more understandable why a few notable physicists 80 years ago might have been entertained by the idea, but there's a very good reason it never caught on: It's useless.