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Throw everything else away. There are two possibilities - 1. There is something, and it has always existed. 2. There is something, and it once did not exist.
by mmazing 6y ago
Throw everything else away.
There are two possibilities -
1. There is something, and it has always existed.
2. There is something, and it once did not exist.
Either one is weird.
The author doesn't address this, and I feel, despite their sparkling credentials, that they should have.
- jedimind 6y agoIt's actually just 1., because 2. just rerolls the question, what caused that something to begin existing?
- Schiphol 6y agoPerhaps you'd be interested in the entry on the philosophy of cosmology, section 3 in particular: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/#OrigUniv https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmology/#OrigUniv