Philosophical Speculations

I really cannot persuade myself from the Darwinian mechanisms of evolution; and as an objective idealist I do think that consciousness cannot have been evolved by means of natural selection. Maybe there are other means by which evolution can produce adaptive phenotypic characteristics. Saltationism ...

Some scientists argue that information is equal to consciousness. Would you agree? And what is your definition of information and consciousness?
Is subjective experience just information or is phenomenal consciousness unexplainable?

Do we live in a virtual reality rendered by a "computer"? So the computer that renders our reality is in another reality frame, right? Or are we "just" a virtual reality - a simulation - in the mind of God? Then the next question would be: Who or what is that God? And is he/she/i...