Consciousness

I just enjoyed reading this so much that I wanted to share it.  It's got me thinking about how to word my living will, what with the new ways of inferring consciousness and all.  I wo nder if the science of consciousness is what will finally get us thinking about more useful ways to use our capacity to have faith. Like, can our faith in there being an external world be the thing that makes the external world exist for us?  Is this what the Alien being Jesus meant when he said 'if you had but the faith of this mustard seed, you could move mountains. Is my world the same as your world, or like the article questions;  do we both imagine the same color when we think of green?  Could all this endeavor be but stepping stones on the road to human immortality and exploration of the cosmos;  just insert our consciousness in a space ship and let it travel for a million years to some distant place.  After all;  maybe that's how we got here.  Or will God be the final truth that we discover?  Our raison d'etre is to explore these things.