dhw: Neither you nor I can explain human consciousness, or divine consciousness if it exists. No-one can. We go back to first cause and faith. -According to Ruth's presentation first cause is confusing quantum energy, filled with chaotic smudges of energy bits running around in fields that bump into each other, and create potentialities and somehow or other cause an organized universe to appear, allow life and consciousness to appear. All by chance? Not logically. Mix chaos theory and QM without an organizing principal and you get what? Nothing. There had to have been intelligence at the beginning if the underlying basis of our reality is quantum quicksand.