RE: God As Grounding Cause
May 25, 2018 at 5:33 am
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2018 at 5:33 am by robvalue.)
There is one more intuitive way of having infinite causes, and that's with time cycling. After a certain amount of time, things end up exactly as they were.
I believe our our current models seem to predict a heat death though. (Weird design choice.) We could be wrong of course, and the heat death actually leads to a reset; or something else happens entirely.
I've mentioned before about extrapolation, too. If you have a model where all your data has come from some domain, it's going to be potentially reliable for future points within that domain, but if you instead put other ones in, reliability can be very bad. Applying any sort of logic or physical models to what happened / happens outside our space-time is pure guesswork.
I believe our our current models seem to predict a heat death though. (Weird design choice.) We could be wrong of course, and the heat death actually leads to a reset; or something else happens entirely.
I've mentioned before about extrapolation, too. If you have a model where all your data has come from some domain, it's going to be potentially reliable for future points within that domain, but if you instead put other ones in, reliability can be very bad. Applying any sort of logic or physical models to what happened / happens outside our space-time is pure guesswork.
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