Of course you never know whether the "brute fact" for which you have no
explanation is actually "brute" or not. You look for an explanation but
failing to find one doesn't prove one doesn't exist.
Brent
On 11/1/2024 3:23 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 6:07 PM Alan Grayson <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>> /Wheeler's answer explains nothing,/
*>> I think it explains a great deal,especially considering
the fact that it's only 13 words long. *
/> Wheeler is just translating EFE, Einstein's Field Equation,
into words./
***Just?! Well OK, if you have a profound intuitive understanding of
four dimensional non-Euclidean tensor calculus and can just visualize
it in your head then Wheeler's words are unnecessary, in fact
everybody's words are unnecessary including mine. Are you telling us
you have such an understanding?*
/> Without some rule for the emergence of an event, aka a cause,
there is no way to understand it./
*Yes obviously. But if you know that something is a brute fact then
there is nothing more to understand about it, so asking "why" it is a
brute fact would be a silly question. And if it's not a brute fact
then to understand it you need to find its cause, and then you'll want
to find the cause of the cause etc; And then the "why" questions
either go on forever or they don't and if they don't then they must
terminate with a brute fact.*
*John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis
<https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis>*
coc
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