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What is the difference between faith in randomness vs. faith in a Supreme Being?

Prove it. Reality is perceptual, perceived by the mind. All perceptions are discrete yet connected to the whole totality of Reality. That means Reality is the result of a unity, more specifically, it is a unity of consciousness. That means when a perception takes place, the "essence" of t...

Tharan wrote:You are continuing to draw structures where none is necessary. The unstructured timeframe has a preponderance of evidence while the idea of mutiverses has exactly zero.

You don't understand the paradox then ;)

Reality is the result of a unity, more specifically, it is a unity of consciousness. That means when a perception takes place, the "essence" of the perception is a "conscious, real event". One may try to "atomize" the perception, attempting to break it down into a simpl...

The grandson can kill his grandfather for the simple reason that he travels backward in time and the grandfather doesn't. There is no paradox. The time frame in which he was born was not the same time frame in which he encounters his grandfather in the act of murder. It is a comparison of apples an...

http://www.rationality.net/freewill.htm#Deviations%20from%20Causality Some persons may argue that, if only we had total and complete knowledge of all minuscule causal factors influencing the fall of a die, we could use a supercomputer to analyze all such factors and their cause/effect relationships....

http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/docs/newcomb.html Newcomb's Paradox provides an illuminating non-theological illustration of the problem of divine foreknowledge and human freedom. We are to imagine a being with great predictive powers and to suppose we are confronted with two boxes, B1 and ...

w, There are levels of reality where cause precedes effect and X = X. Then there are levels of reality where casality and predeterminism appear to break down and X = not-X The conclusion does not logically follow. Invalid argument: there is an A, therefore there is a B. Pardox is of the form X = no...

Let's say we create the concept "wrong". The very moment we create the concept "wrong" the concept "right", or "not wrong" automatically arises. "Not wrong" is an effect of creating "wrong", but there is no time lapse between the creation ...

Causality and predeterminism can still be preserved with the many worlds hypothesis? http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds/ The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) is an approach to quantum mechanics according to which, in addition to the world we are aware of directly, there are many other s...

Is that so? Define time. There are levels of reality where cause precedes effect and X = X. Then there are levels of reality where casality and predeterminism appear to break down and X = not-X Quantum Trickery No, they were not sprawled along a sunny windowsill. To a physicist, a "cat state&q...

Predeterminism assumes that there are unchanging laws from the very beginning of time to very the end of time. But it is possible that the constants of physics and therefore the laws of physics can change slightly over billions or millions of years. Hence the slight almost imperceptible changes, wou...

http://www.newebmasters.com/freeenergy/sm-article-pg1.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(system_theory) Open systems have a number of consequences. A closed system contains limited energy. The definition of an open system assumes that there are supplies of energy that cannot be depleted; ...

In general, as soon as you conceive of X, you also conceive of not-X...? Yes, this is a necessity. Ksolway theory, duality, and complementarity, seem to say that X cannot exist without a complementary not-X. Holism and duality are not incompatible. One can eat a piece of cake while acknowledging th...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphic_field A morphic field (a term introduced by Rupert Sheldrake, the major proponent of this concept, through his Hypothesis of Formative Causation) is described as consisting of patterns that govern the development of forms, structures and arrangements. The theory ...

The parts exist as soon as the mind divides them. As soon as you conceive of "whole" you conceive of "part". So the two notions are inderdependent and arise simultaneously. In general, as soon as you concieve of X, you also concieve of not-X...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi...

It appears that infinities are part of the Totality. Yes, all things which are not the Totality are part of the Totality. The countless "infinities" are not the Totality, and are therefore not Infinite. Infinities are not infinite...? seems to be a contradiction there... Does infinity exi...

Since the Totality is not a "thing" I wouldn't say it "exists" (or not exists). The Totality is Infinite, so it defies being described in the way we could describe regular things. It appears that infinities are part of the Totality. Does infinity exist? It appears to be a logica...

What is the connection between all things that are caused? They all exist, and they're all caused. If two things are mutually exclusive then there necessarily exists a difference between them. That separation between mutually exclusive entities, the difference is a relation that also exists. All of...

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wookie wrote:Does a cause of all possible causes exist?

No, since every thing necessarily has a cause.

What is the connection between all things that are caused?

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wookie wrote:Does DQ say that there are no meta-causes?

Meta-causes have further meta-causes, and so on. That's why causality stretches back forever.

Does a cause of all possible causes exist?

Trying to determine whether A=A is caused or uncaused is like trying to determine whether justice is yellow or purple. I believe they call this a "category error". - Yellow and purple are distinct properties that apply to specific/less general aspects of existence. Causality is general an...

Since causality necessarily stretches back forever, it cannot be said to have been created either accidently or on purpose. Ideed, it has never come into existence at all. - An infinite series of cause/effect moments can be represented by a single finite equation. The equation contains the predicta...

It doesn't mean anything to say that A=A is caused or uncaused , because it isn't a specific thing as such. Rather, it is what underlies the existence of all specific things. It is part of the very body of causality itself. Causality can only create and destroy specific things, whereas A=A is the c...

Can you prove that causality is blind and purposeless? It comes down to how you define "purpose". Since causality includes everything, it cannot have a goal apart from itself nor a motive from outside itself . So, each moment predetermines the next, but not for any purpose. This is a logi...