(August 24, 2018 at 9:54 am)Jehanne Wrote: ....rather than Nothing:
Professor Sean Carroll -- Episode 9: Solo — Why Is There Something Rather than Nothing?
It's a good podcast, although, Dr. Carroll asks for money up front; kind of tacky in my opinion, but after that, very informative. He considers "God" as a cause of the Universe to be "reasonable"; but, I suppose that some God perhaps, but not necessarily the Judaeo-Christian one.
He's full of shit.
He's still stuck with infinite regress in regards to a super cognition.
Neither something, or nothing require a super cognition to happen.
There is no scientific consensus on something vs nothing.
It could be this universe came out of nothing, or it could be this one was the result of the death of a prior universe. In that respect infinity could be true, but only as an cycle between off and on, like our seasons constantly change but each individual season is finite.
Deism does not fill the gap either, even if you try to avoid the mythology of antiquity.
This attitude that a super cognition factory boss is required is really nothing more than our species projecting it's own desires on the universe around them. It is mentally projecting human qualities on non human events.
Fluctuating between states can repeat, but each state is finite. Our species cognition is an temporary blip in evolution, just like a snowflake in a snowstorm does not last forever.
Stephen Hawking, "A God is not required," and he means the lower case too."
To assume a super cognition is required, causes the problem of infinite regress. If that super cognition created us, than an even bigger super cognition created that, and an even bigger bigger super cognition created that super cognition.
