Good exists - a Catholic comments

[GrandizerII]

But even if we take that as possible, then why could not apply the same simplicity to some underlying physicalist Grand Law of Everything out of which then unfolds the multiverse?

I'm not arguing that this isn't an option. Even better than an abstract law is some grand naturalistic entity. The point I was making is that, intuitively speaking, some brute facts sound less absurd than others.

Not everyone will share this intuition of course, but I suspect a lot of people would consider something that seems non-arbitrary to be less absurd as a brute fact than something very arbitrary. But if not, this is at least how I would look at it.

Could we also then not ask which seems less intuitively absurd to be a brute fact: an omni being or a physicalist universe composed of one thing?

You can, if you want. In fact, I wish more and more people contemplated this kind of stuff. It feels lonely sometimes when I seem to be the only one contemplating this.

I still can't see a difference in absurdity.  Absurdity just says something is unreasonable/ without explanation.  No matter how many brute facts existed wouldn't they all amount to the same thing: zero explanation?  I don't see how absurdity is additive?

Yeah, brute facts imply no explanation, true. But wouldn't you say it makes more sense for some things to exist without an explanation than others? Even if we couldn't logically establish that to be the case, our (or just mine?) intuition seems to be nagging us in that direction.