Science... take yer pick

[rayheinrich]

Ah yes Ray, consider this my friend, as I bend your words to fit my ears:

Life is a movie and God
is the light
behind the scenes.

The pure, white light... the light at freqs our eyes can't see.  BUT, of course, we can see certain freqs of light, and thus we are in effect already "seeing" God at the fringes of our sensory understanding.  As far as our eyes are concerned, life is just a movie.  So, let there be light.

God is a movie
and we
the projectionists

and while the light of our xenon arc lamp
is pure
the lens of our consciousness
is chromatically aberrated

And yes, the eternal consciousness--  with the weight of an idea.  I cannot relate to consciousness anymore as emergent, precisely due to the "hard problem" that you point out.  I am wearing myself out researching consciousness, and trying my best to maintain an open mind:  I 99% agree with you that this "hard problem" is the most vexing of them all. {/quote]

I may (happily) spend the rest of my life pondering such things...  The really, really hard part is maintaining an open mind, and that is why I must always allow slightly less than 100% agreement to any fact, faith, or fiction.

A wise precaution.
I limit my agreements to 49%.
When accused of being an intellectual capitalist, I remark on the weather.

And so Ray, I end with a new saying I've developed:
"I won't let anything drive me crazy, because I'm close enough to walk."

    "You can never step into the same superhighway twice."