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

[Anomalocaris]

You did not source your quote. You're not very good at this, are you.

He follows that statement, according to this blog, with:


So, his opinion is not based on evidence. He has no proof, he cites no proof. THAT IS NOT SCIENCE.

His opinion is based on studies like those I mentioned earlier. The full quote only reinforces mery statement. After psi researchese have found positive results and satisfied the strict protocols required by skeptics, the skeptics like Wiseman raise the bar after the fact. Science is supposed to be objective. When you insert a very subjective judgment into the process, like calling some things ordinary and others extraordinary, then you lose all credibility as a neutral experimenter. It injects bias.

Ah No. There is no intrinsic bias in the concept of evaluating how closely a proposition conforms to the expected outcome of sufficiently validated process, and accepting with comparative less scrutiny those propositions that are less in conflict with the validated processes.

After all, this is the extra degree of freedom that the very concept of validation aimed to achieve in the first place.