RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer...
May 26, 2014 at 5:18 pm
(May 26, 2014 at 2:48 pm)archangle Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 1:53 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote:(May 26, 2014 at 9:01 am)archangle Wrote: Can an universal "awareness" emerge from the "pieces that we see? The answer is far more probably "yes" than "no". In fact so much so that it is silly not to assume it. as silly as assuming there were no planets elsewhere in the 1970's.
There you go.
Oh maybe I misunderstood "wild speculation".
no ... it clearly is not "wild speculation". Thinking that the "pieces" we see around us probably add up to something more than we know.
That's the very definition of wild speculation. And you're moving your goalposts: you didn't assert that "something more" was probable, you asserted that a universal consciousness emerging was probable. That's even wilder.