God as a Pure Self-Consciousness

God is said to be purely spiritual, but a pure self-consciousness is ruled out by the argument against the primacy of consciousness.

Is God purely spiritual? “Spiritual” means pertaining to consciousness, and consciousness is a faculty of certain living organisms, their faculty of perceiving that which exists. A consciousness transcending nature would be a faculty transcending organism and object. So far from being all-knowing, such a thing would have neither means nor content of perception; it would be nonconscious.¹