Is Consciousness Universal?

Is Consciousness Universal? is an interesting article about integrated information theory (IIT) as it leads up with content about Panpsychism and a discussion of contemporary thought. "Many, if not all, multicellular organisms experience pain and pleasure and can see and hear the sights and sounds of life." "Any complex system has the basic attributes of mind and has a minimal amount of consciousness in the sense that it feels like something to be that system. If the system falls apart, consciousness ceases to be; it doesn't feel like anything to be a broken system. And the more complex the system, the larger the repertoire of conscious states it can experience." "Electrical charge does not emerge from noncharged matter. It is the same, goes the logic, with consciousness. Consciousness comes with organized chunks of matter. It is immanent in the organization of the system. It is a property of complex entities and cannot be further reduced to the action of more elementary properties." "To be conscious, then, you need to be a single, integrated entity with a large repertoire of highly differentiated states." "Underlying this unity of consciousness is a multitude of causal interactions among the relevant parts of your brain. If parts of the brain become fragmented and balkanized, as occurs in deep sleep or in anesthesia, consciousness fades."