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The consciousness of the Universe[i]

In this short video, Rupert Sheldrake criticizes the mind´s concept of the materialism and defends a kind of universal consciousness, but in layers. Robert Lawrence Kuhn starts saying that the brain scientists, like neurophysiologists and neuroscientists are materialists and they are argue that consciousness is a (purely) product of the human brain (driven from the physical world). Sheldrake answers asking how this is possible... would the consciousness come from nowhere? This sounds unconvincing for him and, more than that, this way we would live in a world strictly physical and without free will. It is a bizarre philosophy, in his words. For Sheldrake consciousness is involved in choice and, as a matter of fact, it is a tiny part of all our unconsciousness processes (the vast majority of what we do). So, consciousness enables different possibilities to be handled together. Rupert believes that every system in the nature that has possibilities and is not fixed can have consci