@red dragon
I don't try to define it but the way I see it, there's probably more to our consciousness. You see a lot of things happening around you that seem so neatly arranged that it feels like there's more to it, like there's something driving that change. Look at our body, each organ for a specific function, it reacts to things on its own without our conscious control (things like immunity, healing from injury etc.
Multiple points in life, a sequence of seemingly random things happen so perfectly in sequence to screw you over or produce something good. It doesn't happen often but when it does, it really makes you think how the heck did that happen.
You know how in evolution, there'd be mutations every generation and natural selection favours the 'designs' that work best. It's seemingly random, but it feels so similar to product design. There would be many prototypes but the market forces among other things favour one design over the other, and you can see designs evolve over time based on what works out best for the company. This is so similar that it makes me think what's prototyping nature. It just seems like intelligent design to me.
Long story short, I think there are many layers of consciousness that runs across the universe influencing things. We're a part of it and perhaps each person/creature is a focal point where it peaks. This is how I see it. Is this god? I don't know
Religion tries to simplify it into a person. Atheism tries to ignore it altogether.
Belief in god helps at times, like when you feel helpless an alone. It gives the illusion of security and some comfort. I strongly suspect that the concept of heaven and hell came about as a brilliant idea to nudge people in a certain direction. I mean, claiming that death in battle will bring honour to your ancestors in valhalla is gonna be a lot more motivating that saying that they're being sent into a killing field to die.
