Consciousness isn’t a scientific concept, it’s an intuitive concept. When we try to do a science of consciousness, we’re applying scientific approaches to investigating an intuitive concept. The intuitive concept doesn’t stop existing while we look for its empirical correlates – I can’t scientifically say that the random guy on the street is conscious, but I still know he’s conscious when I talk to him about his day.
Well that’s not true.
Plenty of Christians see a Christian god, plenty of Muslims see Allah, etc. etc. There are similarities, lights and tunnels and what not (I vaguely recall that they align pretty well with a spreading shutdown of our visual systems), but I would bet the majority don’t report anything about aliens.
I said angels are aliens. Many see Jesus. Obviously Jesus is an alien.
Religious people define God as “something that can’t be defined”. So how can they “see” God, or Allah etc.? Most NDEs say they see Angels, Michael, or Jesus.
To a religious person, God has no definition and cannot be defined, so they can never provide any concrete definition of what God is… they could never just consider that angels are aliens, because their definition of God is something that cannot ever be defined…