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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 21, 2014 at 11:58 am)Cato Wrote:
(May 20, 2014 at 9:43 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The one question materialists never answer is this: "What does consciousness actually do?"

Discriminates stimuli, reports information, monitors internal states, directs behavior and experiences the aforementioned.
Really? Where in the chain of physical causes does consciousness insert itself? What gap does awareness, as awareness, fill?
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RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer... - by Neo-Scholastic - May 21, 2014 at 12:07 pm

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