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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...
(June 4, 2014 at 10:28 pm)bennyboy Wrote: -How, non-arbitrarily, can we determine that a physical system has qualia?
By examining the physical system and seeing if it has the right components with the right specification/configuration to be consistent with systems in which we can observe the emergence of qualia.

A useful analogy is analysing engine components in order to calculate the BHP.
Sum ergo sum
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RE: Does it make sense to speak of "Universal Consciousness" or "Univer... - by Ben Davis - June 5, 2014 at 8:42 am

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