Still, he insisted that God is doing this and when he’s doing it, we’re getting things right. You could think of that as a cousin of my view on skeptical scenarios, with God playing the role of the simulator or evil demon. The first really clear statement of the no-illusion view that I know of appears in a 1949 essay by the University of Nebraska philosopher Oets Kolk Bouwsma. Bouwsma was a student of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who inspired Jonathan Harrison’s hallucinating Baby Ludwig
