Consciousness explained? Consciousness elevated?
We are conscious beings (even if some of the immediate membership are prone to disgrace that designation), and we are inclined to assume that, should a Ruling Principle exist--even if it's not cut from the cloth a tribe of vengeful bedouins 5000 years ago would submit for our consideration--it must needs be "conscious" just like us. But is this not something like the assumption that a race of sentient bears might hold as an article of faith--that the Almighty would necessarily hold fresh salmon clawed up from the river as the Supreme Good?
I suspect that the cosmos is stranger and more complex than the Christers, or even the Buddhists, wot. But the joke may be that it's stranger than the hardest atheist will acknowledge, and that the Cosmic Wahdedoodah could be sentient without being remotely self-aware as we understand this...
consciously,
