(January 8, 2018 at 7:21 am)Agnosty Wrote: If something happens by chance in an infinite chain of causality, it must happen infinite times. Anything that happens by chance, cannot happen only once.
What's your logical argument in defense of that?
Quote:How do you reconcile this in your belief? Have we had this conversation infinite numbers of times previously and are destined to discuss it infinitely more? Not only that, but in every possible form also for an infinite number of times?
Well, even if we're positing a multiverse here, it can be argued that you are only you here in this local universe. You are not the other ones in the other universes that look exactly just like you and have gone through identical experiences as you up till now.
Quote:If causality is not infinite, then it must have a beginning and therefore causeless, which doesn't make any sense. How do we escape the ridiculous?
Loaded question is loaded. Truths that are incredibly hard to believe because they defy intuition are not meant to be escaped, but rather accepted as truths regardless.
That said, under certain views such as eternalism, causality may just be an illusion. At the metaphysical level, no change is really happening. All connections that are perceived as causal are really connections in the same way movie frames are connected to one another in a movie roll or in the same way USA is connected to Canada.
