You know, if we're all an interconnected consciousness, then that implies that we are in some way connected with the Tangerine Tantrum and all the other arsehats throughout history. Not sure I'm okay with that. 😉
Perhaps delving a little deeper: What IS consciousness anyway? We are made of inert lifeless molecules that formed protein chains that, though billions of years, managed to organise themselves into a "person". We are clearly alive, thinking, and you're reading and understanding this text through machines that people thought up and built. But, yet, there isn't a part of us that you can point to and say "that's where the life comes from". And we can only sort of wishy-washy point at parts of the brain and say "that's where thoughts come from" but we're not sure exactly how. There is, in terms of chemicals, very little difference between a living person and a newly not-living one. It's more a cessation of electrical activity. But what? And how? And how does that make consciousness?
I think there are far too many groundwork questions that need answers first.
Perhaps delving a little deeper: What IS consciousness anyway? We are made of inert lifeless molecules that formed protein chains that, though billions of years, managed to organise themselves into a "person". We are clearly alive, thinking, and you're reading and understanding this text through machines that people thought up and built. But, yet, there isn't a part of us that you can point to and say "that's where the life comes from". And we can only sort of wishy-washy point at parts of the brain and say "that's where thoughts come from" but we're not sure exactly how. There is, in terms of chemicals, very little difference between a living person and a newly not-living one. It's more a cessation of electrical activity. But what? And how? And how does that make consciousness?
I think there are far too many groundwork questions that need answers first.