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    It is not the case that Brains do not produce consciousness; rather, brains tap into a pre-existing universal consciousness.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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