The implicit assumption here is that consciousness arises only with biology, as a product of biology. Naturally, this is precisely what idealism denies. Under idealism, biology is merely the extrinsic appearance of dissociated, local dierentiations of consciousness (that is, alters), not the constituent or generator of consciousness. There was universal consciousness before such dissociated, local dierentiations arose. And there was phenomenality in this universal consciousness corresponding to the inanimate universe prior to the origin of life
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