Amos's telephone analogy is spurious.
It's a strange telephone that when you alter it's internal workings it changes the personality of the voice at the other end.
People with brain damage can have radically changed personalities.
The problem with Amos and his ilk is that they do not seek to explain consciousness, but merely say it comes from somewhere else and is un-explainable.
For me this is a copout.
My hope is that as the research in this field proceeds, safe and reproducible mystical experiences will become available for all, at which point all the rococo intricacies of religious structure will be seen for what they are, mutually contradictory products of an overactive imagination.

Freedom at last.

PP