On 2/10/2016 5:50 PM, John Clark wrote:
On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 Brent Meeker <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>wrote:
>
Explanations can be circular and if it's a big enough circle that,
somewhere around it, X is explained in terms of Y and Y is
something you understand then it's a virtuous circle.
T
herein
lie dragons
.
I go to a local bookstore and buy a copy of Shakespeare's plays.
I get in my time machine and go back to 1580 and give the book to a
illiterate 16 year old boy named William
Shakespeare. Young William
publishes
the plays and soon
they
become enormously popular spreading throughout
t
he world and the centuries eventually ending up at my local bookstore.
Where did the information in
that
book come from? Who wrote the plays?
First, that's a causal loop. Not all explanations are in terms of
causes. Second, there's no evidence that time-like loops are possible.
Third, there's a lot of information in the sense you use it, that was
not there at the big bang - so where did it come from?
Brent
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