Well, in a larger sense, I'm only involved in trying to account for evidence we have at hand. I'm willing to speculate anything, but only so far as it provides a potentially falsifiable, well-defined hypothesis, or would at least serve as a framework for developing one.
There's a problem with introducing an all -powerful creator being into that. It's not that there isn't one because there are certain indications that there is, but as far as analysis you just handed yourself the ultimate wild card. Every single fact and circumstance can simply be explained as, "God willed it to be thus." Actual analysis becomes completely arbitrary, if not flushed right down the toilet. Just think of how liberals have a secret invisible asterisk at the end of every one of their statements. Do you want to be like them?
As far as the nature of consciousness, the biggest tip of the hand was the show "Westworld". We clearly see it as a technology that can be manipulated externally. If we look judiciously around at the current world and through history, we can find evidence of exactly that happening.
One might also analogize it to eyesight. We start with an in-built, "natural" facility. Note that different people have different characteristics, and some are even color-blind. We can augment it with everything from eyeglasses to telescopes and microscopes. With lasik and RK, we can also alter it in ways undetectable to all but specialists, who would need to examine the person carefully.
To sum up, instead of trying to "get somewhere", I simply try to make sense of what is already before me. When and as that is done and done well, where to look next is usually not much of an issue.
Well, in a larger sense, I'm only involved in trying to account for evidence we have at hand. I'm willing to speculate anything, but only so far as it provides a potentially falsifiable, well-defined hypothesis, or would at least serve as a framework for developing one.
There's a problem with introducing an all -powerful creator being into that. It's not that there isn't one because there are certain indications that there is, but as far as analysis you just handed yourself the ultimate wild card. Every single fact and circumstance can simply be explained as, "God willed it to be thus." Actual analysis becomes completely arbitrary, if not flushed right down the toilet. Just think of how liberals have a secret invisible asterisk at the end of every one of their statements. Do you want to be like them?
As far as the nature of consciousness, the biggest tip of the hand was the show "Westworld". We clearly see it as a technology that can be manipulated externally. If we look judiciously around at the current world and through history, we can find evidence of exactly that happening.
One might also analogize it to eyesight. We start with an in-built, "natural" facility. Note that different people have different characteristics, and some are even color-blind. We can augment it with everything from eyeglasses to telescopes and microscopes. With lasik and RK, we can also alter it in ways undetectable to all but specialists, who would need to examine the person carefully.
To sum up, instead of trying to "get somewhere", I simply try to make sense of what is already before me. When and as that is done and done well, where to look next is usually not much of an issue.