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

[bennyboy]

Alzheimer's is a good example because it affects memory, thinking, and behavior.

And explains why BennyBoy is incapable of absorbing new information.

Wow, you've managed to unnecessarily troll me and also so insult the millions of people suffering from a horrible degenerative disease by identifying their disease as an insult. Well done.

Do you have any actual ideas about the nature of consciousness to discuss, or has this thread officially moved into the 12-teen "pwned you" phase?

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I would say they are neither necessary nor sufficient to explain consciousness.

Yes. You've been saying that since the day you got here. You're incredulous that a brain can give rise to mind. Regardless, the evidence is that qualia are the result of brain activity.

Have I at any point showed incredulity that brains can give rise to mind? I don't think so.

I've argued that it is not known whether the specific properties of the brain that can give rise to mind are local only to brains (e.g. the function of neuronal systems) or are more general (e.g. associated on primitive levels with ALL exchanges of information).

Nor have I ever denied that specific brain regions create parts of our qualitative experience. We are not talking about the nature of universal consciousness, if there is such a thing, but whether it can be said to exist. I would argue that a God-like universal consciousness cannot exit, but that a more nebulous could be intrinsic to the properties of all matter.