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Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"?
What a silly question. Santa Claus and his magical elves sneak into your bedroom every night, and fill your brain with consciousness that lasts until tomorrow night, allowing the body/vessel/consciousness to engage in magical thinking, and conclude that brain activity ceasing with brain death must necessarily mean the mind flys away in an invisible rocket ship to orbit Pluto and obtain immortality.

(May 21, 2014 at 12:07 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:
(May 21, 2014 at 11:58 am)Cato Wrote: 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?

"You don't know; therefore God."
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Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Universal Intelligence"? - by Rampant.A.I. - May 21, 2014 at 1:18 pm

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