Without an argument, you don't have a case, I think. And I cannot take a pragmatic position, without having derived it (personal issue, but seems philosophically consistent too)
I think we can reframe the question into whether we live in a symbolic reality (material events have symbolic causes, such as incantations or mouse clicks) or a mechanist reality, and whether we can use mechanical reasoning to model it, or our modeling itself uses revelations.
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I'm kind of stumped here. I think we're drifting deeper into your field and I'm not at home there. Are these the only two options? Symbolic or Mechanistic? What do you mean by "our modeling itself uses revelations?"
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No, a third option is full indeterminism, in which case the difference won't matter. Our modeling might use revelation if some outside force puts useful convictions into our mind (unfortunately, we won't really know if we simply received the conviction that they are useful).
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We may reconcile this with computationalist mechanism by proposing that the observed dynamics of our universe or our mental models are computed in a mechanistic parent universe. But all bets are off. We may also be fully delusional.
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