“Theological Implications of the Simulation Argument”
“Nick Bostrom’s Simulation Argument (SA) has many intriguing theological implications. We work out some of them here. We show how the SA can be used to develop novel versions of the Cosmological and Design Arguments. We then develop some of the affinities between Bostrom’s naturalistic theogony and more traditional theological topics. We look at the resurrection of the body and at theodicy. We conclude with some reflections on the relations between the SA and Neoplatonism (friendly) and between the SA and theism (less friendly).”
New papers from Nick Bostrom’s site.
2nd one “ANTHROPIC SHADOW: OBSERVATION SELECTION EFFECTS AND HUMAN EXTINCTION RISKS”—is good reading.
Speaking of the Simulation argument, I just stumbled across (but haven’t read) http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000338/index.html / http://www.arsdisputandi.org/publish/articles/000338/article.pdf :