Has someone asked them why? Perhaps we should be theists.
Yes, they say something like this, this, or this. Whether that is their True Reason for Believing...well, I don’t think so in most cases, but that is just my intuition.
BTW, I’m also a theist (some might say on a technicality) for the fairly boring and straightforward reason that I affirm Bostrom’s trilemma and deny its first two disjuncts along with accepting having created our universe as a sufficient (but not necessary) condition for godhood.
You are correct and I deny that consciousness is unsimulable. The addition of this disjunct does reduce my subjective probability of simulation-theism, but not by much.
Interestingly, unsimulable consciousness would increase the probability of other, more common, types of theism. Don’t you think?
BTW, I’m also a theist (some might say on a technicality) for the fairly boring and straightforward reason that I affirm Bostrom’s trilemma and deny its first two disjuncts along with accepting having created our universe as a sufficient (but not necessary) condition for godhood.
So you believe there exists a Matrix Lord? Basically, computational Deism?
Yes, they say something like this, this, or this. Whether that is their True Reason for Believing...well, I don’t think so in most cases, but that is just my intuition.
BTW, I’m also a theist (some might say on a technicality) for the fairly boring and straightforward reason that I affirm Bostrom’s trilemma and deny its first two disjuncts along with accepting having created our universe as a sufficient (but not necessary) condition for godhood.
The trilemma should be a tetralemma: you also need to deny that consciousness, qualia and all, is unsimulable.
You are correct and I deny that consciousness is unsimulable. The addition of this disjunct does reduce my subjective probability of simulation-theism, but not by much.
Interestingly, unsimulable consciousness would increase the probability of other, more common, types of theism. Don’t you think?
So you believe there exists a Matrix Lord? Basically, computational Deism?