Is there any rational argument for 'the existence of God(s)' that couldn't also be used as an argument that 'we're living inside a Simulation'?
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The simulation argument leads to the turtles all the way down problem. You need something categorically different from physical reality to ultimately ground it. Some kind of Ur-, or super consciousness can do that, which you could call God.
Or you could call it the 'Ur-Simulator'. Giving the allegedly bottom-most turtle a capitalized name doesn't solve the turtles problem at all. It's just a semantic trick.
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Ontological contingency is a semantic trick? Who knew?
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Capitalization is not the point. We can write everything in lower case if you prefer. The point is that consciousness is ontologically different from 'matter', which is after all just an appearance of something unknown, generated in our own consciousness.
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