Basically, I encountered a conscious entity, or perhaps multiple, that definitely wasn’t me. I was confronted with two possibilities: either I was communing with some external intelligence, or there was much more than just me inside my head.
Long story short, I started really dedicating a lot of thought to the problem of consciousness, and found myself with two possible explanations:
Consciousness is an emergent property of complex interconnected systems.
Consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, which is just particularly sophisticated in complex interconnected systems.
If 1, it would be silly to assume the universe, as the most complex interconnected system we know of, would not develop some vast alien form of consciousness, which we might as well call “God”. If 2, then the consciousness “field” might as well be called “God”.
What happened to make you change your mind?
Basically, I encountered a conscious entity, or perhaps multiple, that definitely wasn’t me. I was confronted with two possibilities: either I was communing with some external intelligence, or there was much more than just me inside my head.
Long story short, I started really dedicating a lot of thought to the problem of consciousness, and found myself with two possible explanations:
Consciousness is an emergent property of complex interconnected systems.
Consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, which is just particularly sophisticated in complex interconnected systems.
If 1, it would be silly to assume the universe, as the most complex interconnected system we know of, would not develop some vast alien form of consciousness, which we might as well call “God”. If 2, then the consciousness “field” might as well be called “God”.