Do you ever doubt your atheism?

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aren't we all overthinking this.
don't animals have consciousness? they plan, they play, etc
They just don't have the level of intelligence to ask what is "a thought" or "can a thought live outside of my body"

Maybe what we feel as consciousness is just the simple byproduct of the function of the brain (doing it's thing)
We've gained so much ratcheted intelligence over eons that now we are questioning everything?
I would say the simplest most obvious answers are usually the most correct...

The functionality of a being's consciousness is directly proportional to the size of their brain, and the components making up that brain.
We are superior to most animals because we have developed the frontal cortex(?) which is responsible for such things as planning ahead, short term memory/working memory and other things most animals don't seem to possess.

I think I'm a dualist, because although I recognise there's a correlation between e.g. damaging a part of the brain and then seeing that affect a certain aspect of consciousness, I still think the mind and body are two different things, but they are obviously connected.