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Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
(May 19, 2014 at 2:39 pm)bennyboy Wrote: And if the Cyberboy 3000 describes its "experience?" Or Siri? We are getting close to the age in which instinctive hunches based on face shapes and body motions, or the formations of linguistic forms, are not guaranteed to represent actual sentience.
Why are you invoking technology here? Future AI and subsequent boundaries for sentience is an entirely different discussion.

Quote:I'm still waiting for actual evidence. Other than an instinct-based hunch, what evidence can you provide that anything experiences qualia?
Nobody but you seems to discount qualia as an attribute of human consciousness, so I don't understand what you're getting on about. If you're looking for correlation of neurological impacts to qualia please read about occipitotemporal lesions causing prosopagnosia.
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RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer... - by Cato - May 19, 2014 at 4:44 pm

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