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

[Chas]

Philosophical choice mediated by instinct? What does this even mean?Will you at least concede that it is reasonable to conclude, if for no other reason than to direct inquiry, that all humans without significant injury or aflliction experience qualia?

I cannot know for sure that any other entity, human or otherwise, actually experiences qualia. I cannot see your thoughts, or interact with them. I cannot see, for example, what red looks like to you.

One does not experience qualia; qualia are the experiences.

Once one accepts that another is conscious, then it follows that that other has qualia. The argument is whether our qualia are alike or not.