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

[bennyboy]

There is no evidence for dualism, and you have not provided any.

That depends what you mean by evidence. If you mean "something one person can show another to support or prove a point," then I'd say my lack of evidence, and that of 100% of other people as well, IS the evidence. Don't believe me? What are the criteria for establishing that a given physical structure is conscious? What evidence will be accepted? If you dare even to answer, I guarantee you'll define mind in terms of physical correlates, like brain waves or blood flow, and not in terms of qualia.

If one has thus to cheat on a semantic level to fit reality into his model, then the model is insufficient. And that's why physical monism fails.