Review: Mind and Cosmos (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, April 27, 2025, 18:59 (4 days ago) @ David Turell

Another take on what made us:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzQbdrRZxDBNPfwggfGfQtZPrqbZ

"The universe has no brain. It has no gray matter, no nervous system, no neurons firing electrical impulses—and yet, that physical structure may not be where intelligence and consciousness actually come from. Intelligence may exist and evolve on its own, without emerging within living organisms.

"This is the latest hypothesis from biophysicist and mathematician Douglas Youvan, Ph.D. who spent decades working at the intersection of physics, biology and information theory. He merged research involving enzyme engineering and machine vision with his decades of knowledge in genetics, leading him to realize something remarkable.

“'I began to see that life and intelligence weren’t just reactive—they were predictive, efficient, and often mathematically elegant,” Youvan says. “Eventually, I came to believe that intelligence is not a byproduct of the brain, but a fundamental property of the universe—a kind of informational ether that certain structures, like the brain or an AI model, can tap into.'”

Comment: Nagel [Mind and Cosmos] saw the intelligence in the universe as does this fellow. This is a duplicate of NDE theories that consciousness is separate from the brain. The universal intelligence he refers to is easily seen as God.