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This argument proofs only that the universe exists, which is the totality of things that exist.
You don't argue now that "God" is "just another name" for the universe don't you?
That would be a silly argument, since God is not just defined as that (the totality of being), which would make God the same thing as matter, but the very difference between matter and God is, that God is matter in personified, consciouss form.
So the argument realy is then if a totality of everything can have consciousness itself.
But by definition of what is consciousness, such is impossible, since that entity (the "totality of things", the universe) can not be consciouss of anything outside, apart and independend of itself, since by defintion nothing exist outside of itself. (that is what you proved yourself)
Secondly, self consciousness only can exist if one can distinguish between self and something that is apart, independend and outside of self.
By definition that is also impossible.
Further, to be consciouss means to have subjective existence. But subjective existence can not be defined if there is no objective existence.
This then does not allow for the situation that the "totality of things" (the universe) itself can be a consciouss entity, since the universe itself exists as an objective material entity.
Objective existence means that it is not dependend on anything else. The infinite and eternal way in which the universe exists, form the objective form of material existence. This then allows there to be subjective entities too, in the form of (but not limited to) human consciousness, as a development product of the universe itself, that can be consciouss and self-consciouss, and exist in subjective form.
This form of consciousness can exist, because it allows for being consciousness of something that is outside, apart and independend of itself, and to be self consciousness, cause it can distinguish between self and something that is independend, apart and outside of self.
Since the "totality of all things" (the universe) - based on the way how consciousness is defined - is not a consciouss entity, by definition that is not God.
This argument proofs only that the universe exists, which is the totality of things that exist.
You don't argue now that "God" is "just another name" for the universe don't you?
That would be a silly argument, since God is not just defined as that (the totality of being), which would make God the same thing as matter, but the very difference between matter and God is, that God is matter in personified, consciouss form.
So the argument realy is then if a totality of everything can have consciousness itself.
But by definition of what is consciousness, such is impossible, since that entity (the "totality of things", the universe) can not be consciouss of anything outside, apart and independend of itself, since by defintion nothing exist outside of itself. (that is what you proved yourself)
Secondly, self consciousness only can exist if one can distinguish between self and something that is apart, independend and outside of self.
By definition that is also impossible.
Further, to be consciouss means to have subjective existence. But subjective existence can not be defined if there is no objective existence.
This then does not allow for the situation that the "totality of things" (the universe) itself can be a consciouss entity, since the universe itself exists as an objective material entity.
Objective existence means that it is not dependend on anything else. The infinite and eternal way in which the universe exists, form the objective form of material existence. This then allows there to be subjective entities too, in the form of (but not limited to) human consciousness, as a development product of the universe itself, that can be consciouss and self-consciouss, and exist in subjective form.
This form of consciousness can exist, because it allows for being consciousness of something that is outside, apart and independend of itself, and to be self consciousness, cause it can distinguish between self and something that is independend, apart and outside of self.
Since the "totality of all things" (the universe) - based on the way how consciousness is defined - is not a consciouss entity, by definition that is not God.
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