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    Brains do not produce consciousness; rather, brains tap into a pre-existing universal consciousness.

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    • 1.God is an omnipresent mind coextensive with all of space.
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    • 2.Brains, like everything else, are immersed in this omnipresent universal mind.
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    • 3.Brains naturally diffract the universal consciousness, generating individual streams of experience in the way prisms diffract light.
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    • 1.Neural damage, anesthesia, and lesion studies produce precise, predictable alterations in conscious experience that a mere 'diffraction' model cannot explain.
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    • 2.If brains only filtered pre-existing consciousness, disrupting the filter should release more consciousness, not eliminate specific capacities like face recognition or language.
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    • 1.The prism analogy presupposes a structural match between the medium and the output, yet Leibniz and Hume both show that no spatial or physical property of a substrate can constitute or entail phenomenal properties.
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    • 2.Positing universal consciousness as ontologically prior commits the same explanatory debt as physicalism: it assumes rather than explains why any substrate—divine or neural—gives rise to subjective experience at all.
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    In the middle, between the theistic dualisms and the pantheisms, stand the merotheisms and the panentheisms (two general kinds of models, 16 and 17, again, species coming). As indicated above, the merotheisms are rare, the “odd bird” idea that God is in the world, but the world goes beyond God. Though the term “merotheism” was coined only recently by Paul Draper for his own view (2019: 160), merotheisms have been around well before, for example, in divine emergence theories such as Samuel Alexan
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