OK, So You Want To Know Why This Is So Interesting To Me

I see part of the reason for writing this blog as being to give people arguments to refute common materialist talking points they're certain to encounter online and in real life.  I haven't found one, yet, that doesn't have a response they can't deal with.  

Though some of those are complex because they depend on breaking down the materialist habit of cutting corners, purposely ignoring aspects of problems and issues and distortion by reductionism.   

This area of consciousness, what materialists encounter as their "hard problem" is especially vulnerable - in their presentation of it - to their opponents insisting on looking at it in a fuller and more rigorous way than they would like it to be viewed in.  And, for the same reasons they find it to be a hard problem, there is no way to hold it up to questioning except by looking at it in all of its enormous detail.   

Consciousness, our minds, are what we use to do everything, to even be aware of everything, after all.  For all intellectual purposes, our consciousness, our minds are us, are everyone and is everything of the world that we can know.  It's bound to be complicated, it encompasses everything in so far as we can know of it.   To try to reduce it in the typical fashion of atheism is to not deal with it as it really is.  It is a tiny aspect of how they deal with God, perhaps because consciousness is, to a very tiny extent, the image of God, what makes us different from non-living matter.