Genome complexity: handling replication (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, January 22, 2017, 12:54 (2623 days ago) @ David Turell

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.

The question carries enormous weight. But I’m afraid that for me the long-winded, nebulous answer Leibniz gives (“God” is just a name, not an explanation) carries no weight whatsoever, for the reasons I have given above.


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