What is the reason for God’s existence?
Hello Michael,
If I understood correctly, you believe that what you call the principle of causality must exist in every reality, just as logic must exist. I understood this from your head-to-head debate, where you tried to explain to Aviv that causality is like a mathematical theorem or something like that.
If so, then why shouldn’t God’s existence have a reason?
A question that has been answered here and in my books many times. The consideration of infinite regression leads us to the conclusion that there must be one exception that would constitute the first link that does not require a cause. That is God. But when there is a logical a priori principle, the minimum is excluded from it. And we certainly do not exclude from it objects and events from our world about which we have experience (in my sense, not of a day) that they are subject to causality.
Thanks for the quick answer.
Why is infinite regression a problem? Why does it lead us to a first cause and not to the conclusion that there is an infinite chain of events and the universe is eternal without a first cause?
Sorry if this has already been asked.
Everything has been asked ad nauseam, and is explained in notebooks and in the first stanza. Infinite regression is a hypothetical situation. There is really no infinity. In mathematics, infinity is seen as a potential concept (limit) and not a concrete one. You can see the entry on Hilbert's hotel on Wikipedia. Think about the well-known joke about “turtles all the way down”. The world stands on a turtle. What does the turtle stand on? On another turtle. And that one on another one. And so on all the way down. Is this really an answer? Is there such a thing as “down”?
One last hurrah for you🙏
In mathematics, there are *infinite* numbers. They are right there in this abstract world, despite the concept of a limit.
And I can infer from this that you think cosmologists should already conclude that the world is not finite? Neither spatially nor temporally?
Not infinite*
The existence of concepts is not existence in the world. And even if you are a Platonist, it is not necessary to claim that every number is an existing concept. In any case, this does not say anything about our universe.
Just clarifying a point you misunderstood, maybe it will help a little.
Causality is not like a mathematical theorem. Far from it. It is a principle that exists in our consciousness. What Michi explained in the debate (probably, I don't remember, I watched it when it came out) is that the principle is not learned from our experience and we still recognize it as reality. Therefore, to assume that before the big bang the principle did not exist is unnecessary skepticism in the face of an intuitive and sound argument.
Rabbi Michi, I would be happy if you could correct or clarify me if necessary.
Unnecessary skepticism* Y”L
A correct and necessary addition.
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