Alan Burns ideas on consciousness are dismissed on account that they give rise to an infinite regress.
No, they are dismissed on the grounds that he has no evidence for their truth.
I am dismissed because I am dismissing infinite regress and I am the one being called a clown.
You are dismissed because your arguments are chock full of logical fallacies and your use of big words that you don't understand.
Circular dependencies have things existing because they already have existed and ceased to exist. It introduces the absurdity of self causation and that gets you to something like necessity.
You would have us believe that the Universe depends on the things in it and the things in the Universe are dependent on it.
The same applies to your Trinity.
These are circular and yet you try to hand wave them aside.
The very thing you are trying to rule out by assuming that everything has an external cause. You want something to be the reason for its own existence and contingent as well. You are the one who is confused. In other words You've been sympathetic to everything having an external reason for existence and everything being it's own reason for existing..
The other thing you do is put words into our mouths to misrepresent our positions.
Terms like Father Son and Holy Ghost are not mathematical or scientific terms Jeremy. They are figurative words coined for situations and arguments at times and places.
They do have meanings though and pretending they don't mean what even Christians normally think they mean is disingenuous at best.
God the son doesn't literally sit at God's right hand because God doesn't have one. It's a vision which shows those who can access it what it is closest to in terms that can be understood. That's why Christianity has different metaphors.
Nobody is claiming Jesus does literally sit at God's right hand. Why are you even bring it up?