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Define your terms. God like soul, means all kinds things to all kinds people.
Do you mean an interventiinist deity that responds to prayer? It's unlikely anyone can find evidence of that.
Do you mean panentheism, or the god-of-the-philosophers? That is really a matter of redefining terms rather than any assertion of substance.
Cells have gathered together in ...
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Any scientific theory will reflect "consciousness" insofar as it is conceivable by and structured out of consciousness. And indeed our own scientific rationality probably owes much to our ancient and ongoing contemplation of shapes, points, and lines in the stars.
In some vague Hegelian-Anthropic sense, we may find that physics, once advanced ...
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"So there are similarities between the mathematical models governing these two systems" (namely the brain and the universe)
Both the brain and the universe are physical structures, so there is nothing particularly improbable in the idea that they should share some similarities.
"would it be possible ascertain some sort of intentionality, ...
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Your "computationally omnipotent God" is really just an oracle in disguise (as it should be). Call it oracle and be done.
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I'd like to hear more about what you mean by "computational step." If by "computational" you mean what we normally mean when we speak of computation, then my hunch is that there is no such entity, since we finite humans have a pretty good grasp on what computation is, and there are some sets with Turing degrees >1.
If you mean ...
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