Genome complexity: handling replication (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 21, 2017, 15:07 (2649 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Do you prefer a philosophic approach of no cause, just eternal existence of the universe?

dhw: An eternal mindless universe IS a first cause. An eternal panpsychist universe IS a first cause. There are even those who claim that the first cause was some extraordinary form of nothing. The “first cause” is whatever you want it to be, which is why the term is philosophically meaningless.

The famous question by Leibiz, why is there anything carries weight:

http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil100/leibniz.html

Basically I read it as saying if there is anything, it had a beginning which had a cause or force of creation.