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it's safe to say that the universe of which we are a part hosts consciousness.

No it’s not. This is nonsense, unless by “hosts” you mean in an entirely passive sense, the same way I could say “this room I’m sitting in hosts consciousness” because I am sitting in it. The universe doesn’t know, or care about any of this. To think otherwise is to presume “consciousness” into inanimate things, whether they are rooms, quarks, or cups of yogurt.

I know … it’s all just a pile of words, but that kind of puzzling captivates my attention.
What are your thoughts about all that?

That a pile of words doesn’t necessarily make sense, no matter how hard you try to pull meaning out of it. Sometimes it’s just better to say “I don’t know” than to throw a word salad in the air and pretend it means something.

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