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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Universal consciousness(a philosophical position in the consciousness debate)
The idea that consciousness (awareness, experience, mind) is a fundamental feature of the universe itself, rather than something that only appears in brains.
ontologically prior(describing the relationship between thinking and representation)
More fundamental or basic in terms of what actually exists; something that has to exist before or independently of something else.
physicalism(The target position that the knowledge argument is designed to refute)
The thesis that physical theory can in principle account for everything there is to know about the world
positing(Fichtean model of self-consciousness)
The act by which the I establishes or asserts being — both its own being and, through limitation, the being of the non-I