Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?

[Mudhammam]

That there is something it is like to be (such as a being); to have a quality of experience.

The thing about Nagel is that he cannot seem to completely rid himself of the divine. And he desperately wishes he could.

I don't know a lot about Nagel's work. I've read his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?" but beyond that most of what I know about him is through reading other authors (I also read his review of one of Plantinga's recent works and found it far too generous). From that all I can really say is that Nagel seems to be closer in line with those like Ruse, McGrinn, and Searle who either take the position that humans will never understand how/why consciousness exists or if we do, it will require some entirely new approach or revolutionary framework. I'm not so pessimistic. If there really is anything to the "hard problem," I anticipate that it will vanish once the "easy problems" are figured out.