Thank you Frank and I like you too! Appreciate you listening and engaging with my 'ideas'. It's important we keep the discussions going. We will not r...
OK by 'choices' I meant 'the things that we do'. Making a 'decision' is just like running a computer program IMO: same data, same program, always same...
It is obviously impossible not to be influenced by anything when making choices. A choice would not be possible without influences; we'd have nothing ...
All you have said is what about God? Doesn't he need a cause? To which I have pointed out that God is timeless so no he does not need a cause. So I am...
Does time still pass in this case? My understanding is that it does. I imagine a clock and next to it empty space. Time passes for the clock (in motio...
Plank time is not the shortest possible duration, it is merely a unit of measurement derived from natural constants. Hmmm... and would that be a finit...
Interesting. I see God as timeless rather than a creature of time (or greater time). I am not clear though on what you think the length of now is? And...
You are correct, this is another potential example of infinity (in the small). I am a finitist, so I suspect the answer is (c) finite. I think Infinit...
The logic is that everything in time forms an infinite regress with no start. The only way escape that infinite regress is a timeless first cause. Els...
Demonstrate how anything can exist without a first cause please. Any system can be thought of as a hierarchy of cause and effect. A pool table is an e...
No: everything IN TIME has a cause. The first cause is outside time so is not subject to causality. That is the only way that anything can logically e...
We would not make much progress in science or philosophy if everyone took that attitude. Riding in a beam of light seems imponderable too but that tho...
Everything must have a cause apart from the first cause: (first cause) -> A -> B -> C If we take away the first cause, then A, B, C don't exist anymor...
The question is 'what (if applicable) is the length of now?'. Its one of those questions that might lead somewhere or might not even make sense, depen...
You are confused. Causality works forwards rather than backwards. So you have to work from the oldest first - the more recent elements depend on the o...
The fact nature exists and cannot have always have existed implies that something beyond nature (=supernatural) must exist. My approach is to assume c...
We have a breakdown of natural laws at the singularity... we have to try to use common sense instead. Something must of been causally before the singu...
I think a key question is can space exist without time? - Yes. Then material and God could exist in space without time. God would probably be material...
Maybe he might have to 'seed' it with something from God, but then the matter could be created from nothing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-energy...
Can an idea said to be real though? Is it just electrical signals in our brains? I'm not sure an idea has independent existence as in Plato's theory o...
Yes but working from the other direction - there is no start - so none of the years are defined. And that is the correct direction to work from - time...
Not all regresses are in time. Logical statements form a regress in that each logical statement depends on prior statement(s) for justification. I can...
All regresses in time are similar. Time itself is a regress. If you think about a moment, it defines/causes the following moment, so it forms a regres...
The point of a regress in time is that it has a distinct order - time order. And later events depend on earlier events. So you can't just reverse the ...
But how does a finite regress work any differently to an infinite regress? Without a start, neither exist. You can't number the events in reverse time...
We have a pool table. The cue hits the white ball. The white ball hits the black ball. The black goes in the pocket. Would the black ball go in if the...
Because the oldest item defines all the other items in the regress. For example: { 2016, 2017, 2018 } If I somehow could remove the year 2016, would t...
But you cannot start in 2018 - 2018 does not exist until 2017 has happened. 2017 defines 2018. You have to choose the start as the oldest item - and t...
I have a suspicion that eternal return could be true but for a different reason. I think eternalism maybe true and time could be circular. So we could...
But the key point is an infinite regress has no start. If there is no starting element, then the element next to the start is undefined and so on for ...
I agree that the universe is finite. But if it was infinite, the this applies time wise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincaré_recurrence_theorem But...
No I am saying there is a property of all regresses called 'number of elements' and it is an integer property. You cannot set an integer property to a...
But if its infinite, it can't be a regress - a regress has an integer number of events in it. Or if you prefer, the first event defines the second, th...
No the number of events in an infinite regress is an integer. 1, 2, 3 ... is how we count events with integers. Infinity is not an integer. Its imposs...
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