Can Consciousness Best Be Explained by God's Existence?

[Alex K]

What please is the qualitative difference between an experience and conclusions from a scientific observation?

The experience is intrinsically real. The attributes we make about the nature of the experience, or its source, are not.

So when you do scientific observation, you are really having the experience of looking at a microscope, or of writing down your results, or of reading your published work with pride. But none of all this tells you whether you are looking at a microscope inside a BIJ, or writing down your results on a Matrix reconstruction of paper, or reading the work as represented in the Mind of God. Most importantly, it does not give you good information about whether the universe is a physical monism, an idealistic monism, a substance duality, or something else.

Caveat: the same goes for religious attributions. Just because you see Jesus flying down from the sky to tickle your tummy with a magic feather, doesn't mean there's any underlying reality to that experience.

Got it. I was under the impression you meant something more by "experience", namely including its interpretation in terms of an external reality. thx that clears it up