Subject: Re: OT: what does an expanding universe mean?
If it were a definitive issue, all the neuroscientists would have to look for other jobs. :-)

What I hesitated to mention, as I am well aware in which forum I am and that such ideas are only seen with ridicule here: That an alternative idea regarding the " 'hard' problem of consciousness" is that a complex brain simply is the vessel required for a "soul" (or whatever you might call it) to manifest itself, a requirement for it to have/show consciousness and intelligence.

(I hear Goofy laughing :-)