If God is Everywhere. Why Didn't His Word Spread Without Missionaries?

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72. May be your definition of consciousness is too narrow.

As one example, look into the life and behavior of plants. Very fascinating and no neurological brain in sight. What they demonstrate to me is an ability to adapt and strategize for survival and affluence. If you don't want to call that evidence of consciousness, that's a matter of your definition. But it is life in progress, decisions are being made, actions taken that are intelligent and unique to conditions. We can only observe behaviors of another entity from outside but to my mind, the actions that plants have (and in particular, trees) are more than blind chemical reactions and are evidence of consciousness.

I recommend the book, The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben for a deeper exploration of this. I think you'll find it sufficiently free of "woo" for your tastes. The guy manages forests for a living.

There is life there and plants act in very intelligent ways to the environment even through massive, invasive changes. I call that evidence of consciousness. I do not ascribe to the view that human consciousness is the only form of it.