Alex O’Connor

Consciousness Challenges Materialism Without Proving God

Alex O’Connor, who now prefers agnostic to atheist, argues that consciousness exposes a gap in materialist explanations of reality but does not, by itself, prove God exists. In a discussion with Chris Williamson, he says debates about religion can miss what matters to believers when they treat personal experience as though it were a failed argument—or treat criticism of an argument as a verdict on faith.