Instead of one person, simulate the earth starting several million years before the dawn of man. If you think the humans that evolve in some simulation runs are

Instead of one person, simulate the earth starting several million years before the dawn of man. If you think the humans that evolve in some simulation runs are not conscious, you believe in souls. If in the fake world you predict that in some large fraction of simulations of the unfeeling simulacra will nonetheless invent and argue about the concept of qualia, you believe in immaterial souls. If you suspect that because they don’t have souls they won’t write books about qualia you believe in material souls, souls that both affect and are affected by protons and electrons, souls that physics will eventually find.