Starting a new thread since this is unrelated to the simulation thing: Even taking as a given the notion that cause and effect means every *thing* must have a cause (that's wrong, by the way), why are so many people OK stopping the infinite regress at "God" but not "existence"?https://twitter.com/sonyasupposedly/status/1413209980119916547 …
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Replying to @shlevy
"God" is a concept that contains self-generation and "existence" is not
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @shlevy
you can just modify the concept of existence to include self generation if that floats your boat
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sure, but then it's just God without the relationship, and the relationship part is actually a huge value-add
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @shlevy
yea I understand the value add and many times I wish I had it; but emotional value add alone doesn’t imply truth for me
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it doesn't for me either, but now that I do believe it's true, I'm not giving it up
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @shlevy
in truth ive never heard a satisfying answer to “why is there something instead of nothing” so i don’t begrudge anyone theirs
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There isn't. Look, it's very simple: This question I don't understand. Godelian incompleteness I also don't understand. Godelian incompleteness therefore something something circular time bootstrapping bitmasking Greg Egan dust theory-esque I dunno monads maybe SO THEREpic.twitter.com/Pr0E8X6S7I
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