Partitioning Worldview Space

One concern people have with making arguments toward a foundational mind hypothesis is that traditional theism is just one of (presumably very) many foundational mind hypotheses.

I believe this framing is misguided. We should not divide our worldview competitors into camps that have mind at bottom and camps that don’t. If we do, then yes, camps with mind at bottom are many. Though, of course, camps without mind at bottom have no short number of candidates as well.

Better I think to divide things this way. Either a foundation which is perfect or imperfect. If the foundation is perfect, mindedness (or something like it) is entailed. There is probably just one candidate theory in the perfection foundation space, which is classical theism. Everything else — minded or not — is the imperfect side.

When things are carved us this way, the “odds” (if you like) begin looking much better for traditional theism.