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> > dhw: The contortion is your own, because you have reverted to separating “we” from our “soul”. Otherwise you have simply repeated what I have said. If the soul survives the death of the brain, the soul is “we”. 
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> Of course the soul is we or me. For some reason you don't like the way I state it.
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> > dhw: The brain provides the information, and “we”/the soul process/develop/interpret it, whether the soul is human or doggy. However, hidden in your statement are two important points:
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> > 1)	“[i]We differ from animals only by a very large degree[/i].” Agreed. Degree, not kind.
> > 2)	“[i]We are part of God’s consciousness[/i].” In that case, since according to you the brain is NOT the source of consciousness, there is no reason to assume that the consciousness of bacteria is not also part of your God’s consciousness. They gather their information by brainless means, but the processing is done by their God-given soul. If, however, materialists are right and there is no such thing as a soul, bacterial processing and our own are both done chemically. In both cases, there is consciousness (as you have now agreed), and humans differ from all other life forms only by a very large degree.
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> If I am correct that God is the consciousness of the universe, it pervades everything and every living organism. However use of that consciousness is limited. Bacteria can't. Humans can. That is where we differ.