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Well we can use this to execute a reductio ad absurdam on scientific materialism. Let us assume that the logic of cause and effect is all there is to the univer
by bencollier49 5y ago
Well we can use this to execute a reductio ad absurdam on scientific materialism. Let us assume that the logic of cause and effect is all there is to the universe. Then the big bang must have had a cause, and that cause a cause in turn, and so on. That's obviously absurd, even if we point at time beginning with the big bang. Within any human reasoning, things do not appear ex nihilo.
The alternative is that the thing on which our universe depends (being careful not to say 'caused' here) is beyond our ideas of cause and effect, and certainly passes human understanding.
- goldenkey 5y agoWhat's far more reasonable is that the universe is a loop. The big bang is simply equivalent to the death of the universe: see conformal cyclic cosmology. Cause and effect cease to have priority over eachother. We are equally coupled to both faces of the boundary, the past and the future, which are actually two sides to the same coin, our origin and our destination.
- bencollier49 5y agoIs it? That's still wedded to cause and effect, it just moves the frame of reference outside the looped universe to ask what sustains it or why it exists.
- goldenkey 5y agoIt is no longer unidirectional wedding, it's bidirectional as QM would predict, which is commonly known as coupling. Once a circle is drawn, the starting point is no longer visible. All you have is the symmetries of the circle itself :-)