Our mental states do seem reducible to the purely physical. Consciousness appears physical. It also seems that our brain-mind rises in levels of consciousness as we physically advance. This suggests that Godhood reached through material/supermaterial evolution would contain the highest consciousness, and would also be the most advanced physically.
The God or Father Within, which is the central goal of the Revealed Religions, is also a physical consciousness experienced when the desires of the body are blocked or unattached from, applying involution rather than evolution, and this has been confounded with an Outward God. The Father Within needs to be seen as a symbolic experience of the joy and power of real Godhood attained through evolution.
Bergson defined unconsciousness as having no choice in evolutionary action, but defined higher consciousness as having multiple choices. Taking this idea further, could there be “absolute consciousness” and infinite choice of action coming with “full consciousness” as life evolves to Godhood? Hegel and others dreamed of this.
The Spirit-Will within life also activates within Godhood or within the Gods, as it does in all life, while being shaped by outside evolution and selection, which is how life attains Godhood in the first place. So Godhood might have virtually infinite choice of actions but still be moved further by what might seem like moving toward a final activation, or a final escape from the unconscious.
This brings in thoughts of “first causes” which philosophers and theologians have demanded. I see no good reason why there has to be a first or final cause, it seems more likely that life evolves endlessly, toward higher and higher consciousness and higher forms of physicality and more and more choices of action, with ups and downs along the way.
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