ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that one consequence of the existence of our internal Self is the existence of the Creator – some powerful intelligent entity that created our internal Self. The argument is based on two premises: (1) the acknowledgement that our internal Self cannot be causally derived from the brain/body system and the physical world and (2) the authentic experience of limitation of our Self’s existence in time. The alternative explanations of our internal Self’s emergence (the brain/body reductionism and the evolutionary argument) are analysed and turned down. The relations between the Creator and our internal Self are not of the cause–effect type, as this is accepted in religious (God as a cause of the world and people) and scientific (our consciousness is a simulation made by advanced programmers) narratives; rather, this relation is a participatory–correlational one. With the emergence of science, there appeared the idea of the world of spiritless physical objects linked to each other in physical space and time by cause-effect connections (the Known), whereas the spiritual content of objects was moved into the domains of the Inexplicable (our internal Self and subjective experience) and the Unknowable (Gods and things-in-themselves).
