Abstract
I introduce the implantation argument, a new argument for the existence of God. Spatiotemporal extensions believed to exist outside of the mind, composing an external physical reality, cannot be composed of either atomlessness (infinite divisibility, atomless gunk), or of Democritean atoms (extended simples), and therefore the inner experience of an external reality containing spatiotemporal extensions believed to exist outside of the mind does not represent the external reality (inner mind does not represent external, mind-independent, reality), the mind is a mere cinematic-like mindscreen (a mindscreen simulation), implanted into the mind by a creator-God. It will be shown that only a creator-God can be the implanting creator of the mindscreen simulation (the creator of reality), and other simulation theories, such as Bostrom’s famous account, that do not involve a creator-God as the mindscreen simulation creator, involve a reification fallacy.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Original Papers
- Holism Resurfacing: How Far Should We Go With It?
- An Ontology for ‘The Universe of Being’
- Hume’s Thoroughly Relationist Ontology of Time
- The Implantation Argument: Simulation Theory is Proof that God Exists
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Modes
- Collocation and Constitution
- Personal Identity and the Hybrid View: A Middle Way
- Contra Static Dispositions
- Metaphysical Foundations of Causation: Powers or Laws of Nature?
Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Original Papers
- Holism Resurfacing: How Far Should We Go With It?
- An Ontology for ‘The Universe of Being’
- Hume’s Thoroughly Relationist Ontology of Time
- The Implantation Argument: Simulation Theory is Proof that God Exists
- Intrinsic and Extrinsic Modes
- Collocation and Constitution
- Personal Identity and the Hybrid View: A Middle Way
- Contra Static Dispositions
- Metaphysical Foundations of Causation: Powers or Laws of Nature?