On 9/2/2011 12:43 PM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
On 02.09.2011 20:07 meekerdb said the following:
On 9/2/2011 12:42 AM, Evgenii Rudnyi wrote:
In this series there is a clear statement that there are questions
that we cannot solve, for example if the Universe is eternal or
not. You rely on cause and at the same time on Big Bang. But then
Big Bang seems to have no cause. Or do you know one in this case?
Evgenii
Cause is often ambiguous. In general events don't have a single
cause.
In the philosophy course Controversy in Philosophy, it was mentioned that in the middle
ages it was assumed that if a thing has more than one cause, it leads to ambiguity. If I
remember correctly, then two angels could take the same place together.
Had they forgotten Aristotles four causes??
If two particles collide then the event depended on both them having the right trajectory
to collide. As we trace the events back in time the number of causes must either increase
geometrically or there must be uncaused events. The former is deterministic physics, the
second is quantum mechanics.
Brent
In some models of cosmogony the Big Bang is a random quantum
event meaning it has no immediate cause. In other models it is
generated by collision of M-branes, which might be deterministic. But
randomness does not imply the action of a conscious agent.
Brent
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