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

[bennyboy]

So, our best available "evidence" of this effect seems to happen to people who suffer from Alzheimer's, but this disease attacks mostly the brain areas dedicated to memory, not so much for the actual functioning of consciousness.... so we don't really have much evidence of what you're asking.
We can conjecture, based on what we see happening to Alzheimer's patients.... and that is a slow decline in memories, never quite reaching zero memory, before the patient suffers some terminal malady, often from the failure of some autonomous system that also gets affected by the disease.

Yes, this is a serious problem. We never really get to find out what happens when brain systems get simpler and simpler, because a too-simple brain cannot stay alive. And even if you could transplant a dying brain and keep blood pumping through it-- it would be very hard to know what that "person" is experiencing, if anything, because he can no longer communicate.