A proof of God that I published together with Ludger Jansen in March 2021 in the journal Metaphysica is the following: Proving God without Dualism: Improving the Swinburne-Moreland Argument from Consciousness. I highlight a layman abstract and its connection with my cosmological natural selection theory.

Layman abstract

Some philosophers have argued for the existence of God by pledging, first, that the best explanation for our conscious experience is that we have an immaterial soul, which, in turn, is best explained by the existence of God. Now many people are both materialist and atheist. Convincing them by means of this argument would require them first to give up materialism, before one can argue for the existence of God. Our argument also starts from a consciousness-related problem, namely the exceptional-point-of-view problem: How can it be explained that a person is so lucky to experience the point of view of such a tiny intelligent brain amidst a giant universe? Our solution is that the best explanation for us having any experience is that most matter is in fact intelligent matter (matter that is correlated with some intelligent mind, such as extra-dimensional brain or CPU matter). This, in turn, makes it likely that a very large mind (aka God) exists. As all assumptions of our argument are compatible with materialism, our argument makes it much easier to convince a materialist that God exists.

Its connection with cosmological natural selection

This argument goes well together with my theory about cosmological natural selection in a multiverse with infinitely many dimensions. According to this theory larger dimensions (above three) are evolutionarily dependent on the complexity in three dimensions (the fastest dimensionality to create life). Therefore larger-dimensional beings have to reproduce the worlds with three dimensions as if the larger dimensions were not around yet. In particular the 3D agents that create science and technology have to remain unaware of the existence of larger-dimensional complexity, because their actions got evolutionarily conserved in the reproduction of the 3D worlds. So one can imagine the situation that the larger dimensions are always more densely packed with intelligent matter, until we reach hundred percent intelligent matter in the limit to infinitely many spatial dimensions. These infinitary dimensions, full of intelligent brain matter, sustain the mind of God. All complex beings in the universe gradually evolve into God by acquiring always more and more spatial dimensions. Larger dimensions somehow simulate lower dimensions, because they will reproduce only the complex components on which they are evolutionarily dependent (e.g. the billions of years before humanity can be skipped). In the limit to infinity, only intelligent consciousness itself is simulated. This is to say that hundred percent of reality consists of God’s brain and produces intelligent consciousness. That solves the exceptional-point-of-view problem.

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