Maybe I jumped the gun there or misread you. You said earlier that the disagreement is due to our ignorance of absolute reality, and that you wish we could see what you see. So the question is how that ignorance is supposed to be eliminated. We've been arguing a while now and there haven't been major breakthroughs because there are always different ways to address philosophical problems. Ultimately, we're just telling stories in the face of a cosmic horror.

I see now what your test was supposed to mean. You're asking for the counterexample of a naturalistic explanation of the universe, for one that doesn't posit ontologically primary or necessarily emergent consciousness.

That was a telling concession you made at the end there, though, since I think it makes a huge difference whether consciousness is primary or just emergent. The latter is far more plausible. Now I agree that if consciousness turns out to be necessarily emergent, that might be read as strange and even somehow purposeful. This would be consistent with my pantheistic re-enchantment of nature. The purposes would be mindless and more like horrific, zombie-like stumbling towards "Brains!" or towards some end that somehow calls the natural elements and forces even though there's no intelligent guidance.

But I'm not sure it even makes sense to speak of something that was bound to emerge, not unless there's a multiverse. Given certain fundamental laws, the universe might have to evolve in a certain way, but without God, those laws themselves aren't necessary. (And with God, they're even less necessary since God could change his mind.)

If you're asking whether I can imagine a universe existing with no consciousness arising at all, I actually addressed what I think is at the heart of this problem in an article from 2017. The article was part of an odd project, the writing of a new Lovecraftian Necronomicon.

In short, the limitation here might be psychological and emotional rather than metaphysical. Our difficulty in imaging how mind emerges from matter might be related to the emotional resistance to imagining the opposite, how mind dissolves into matter. In short, our instinctive fear of death may prevent us from entertaining the thought of a universe devoid of life or consciousness. We automatically project consciousness because we don't want to miss the party.

http://rantswithintheundeadgod.blogspot.com/2017/03/eldritch-revelations-mystery-of.html