The workings of our consciousness is miraculous. Like the laws of mathematics, our conscious has no physical presence in this world; the images and thoughts in our minds have no measurable dimensions.
Yet, our nonphysical thoughts mysteriously guide the actions of our physical bodies. This is no more scientifically explicable than the mysterious ability of nonphysical mathematical constructions to determine the workings of separate physical planets.
Until recently, the scientifically unfathomable quality of human consciousness inhibited the very scholarly discussion of the subject. Since the 1970s, however, it has become a leading area of inquiry among philosophers.
Recognizing that he could not reconcile his own scientific materialism with the existence of a nonphysical world of human consciousness, a leading atheist, Daniel Dennett, in 1991 took the radical step of denying that consciousness even exists.
Finding this altogether implausible, as most people do, another leading philosopher, Thomas Nagel, wrote in 2012 that, given the scientifically inexplicable — the “intractable” — character of human consciousness,
“We will have to leave [scientific] materialism behind” as a complete basis for understanding the world of human existence.
The supernatural character of the workings of human consciousness offers a strong [rational] basis for raising the probability of the existence of the supernatural and Gods.
What are some counterarguments on the matter?
Do you agree that consciousness can be used as evidence in favor of the supernatural and gods? Why do you agree or disagree?
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