On 28/10/2024 02:47, Don_from_AZ wrote:
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:
On Sun, 27 Oct 2024 11:32:43 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Or was it simply God Swill?
Is the Universe too complex and wonderful to have arisen by itself?
If so, there must have been some creator agency that brought it into
being.
But wouldn’t this creator agency have been even more complex and wonderful >> than the Universe?
So how could it have arisen by itself?
It's turtles, all the way down..
Recursion all the way.
That is the problem with splitting experience into causes and effects in
a linear way, you always end up with an inexplicable starting point, a causeless cause, or an infinite series.
Metaphysics says 'Er don't do that. try not thinking of the Universe as
being subject to the principle of Causality, but instead see the
Principle of Causality as a human way of splitting the Universe into
chunks, and then trying to glue them back together'
--
"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and
higher education positively fortifies it."
- Stephen Vizinczey
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