RE: Entropy, Kalam, and First Cause
March 18, 2015 at 5:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2015 at 5:48 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(March 18, 2015 at 5:05 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:(March 18, 2015 at 4:14 pm)Chuck Wrote: If laws governing the universe does not menifest itself in laws of the universe, how would you know what they are??
We don't.
(March 18, 2015 at 4:14 pm)Chuck Wrote: The problem with this is laws of the universe is the only set we have reason to believe to apply anywhere based on observation.
Yes, that is quite a problem for us, which probably has a lot to do with why we don't know exactly what happened before T=0.
(March 18, 2015 at 4:14 pm)Chuck Wrote: If one cavalierly throws out the only set of law that we have reason to suspect to exist, then one might as well admit one is not trying to find out what really was, but is prepared to accept anything thay sounds good without constraint.
The constraint is logic. To presume that the laws within the universe apply to the universe is to commit a fallacy of composition. Any implication that this means "one might as well admit one is not trying to find out what really was, but is prepared to accept anything thay sounds good without constraint" is entirely in your own mind. I am not prepared to accept any statement, no matter how good it sounds, about the universe unless it is supported by evidence.
For any rules governing the universe to exhibit evidence both discernible and interpretable within the context of the rules are operating inside the universe, The rules governing the universe must to a high degree be connected to and analogous with the rules inside the universe. So To suppose rules governing the universe could be radically different from rules apply inside universe is to propose a scenario for which discernible and interpretable evidence is in principle not possible.
So so for the rules governing the universe to be extrapolatable based on evidence interpretable from within the context of tge rules governing inside the universe, the rules governing the universe must exhibit behaviors that can be predicted from rules governing within the universe.