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human
You fail to consider that consciousness itself is the cause that set off all subsequent effects, which blips up as separately identifying selves at certain points in time due to what you call material processes. In reality, the only thing that has ever existed independently is God/consciousness.
gpt
Except for the fact that material reality has a substantial effect on consciousness itself, limiting the information it can act on as a function of time. And as for calling consciousness God, what God is limited?
human
Well there seems to be a definition problem. The consciousness of the individual (Atman in Hinduism), which is limited by associating itself with a particular vessel, indeed expresses itself according to previous material states. God (Brahman) is both the origin and the totality of all consciousness, and since God created the material universe out of God and infused it with drops of God consciousness, no single Atman really distinct from Brahman except through its perceived limits of self-identification.