A thread outlining what I take to be the strongest arguments for occasionalism, the dominant Islamic view of causality. /1
As an aside: we know what makes cotton combust when we bring fire near it: photons (carriers of an electromagnetic field in the infrared range) increase the momentum of the cotton's molecules until bonds break and recombine with atmospheric oxygen, thereby releasing more photons.
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You can keep breaking down interactions into their constituent parts (photons), but eventually you get to brute facts. The laws are the way they are.
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