Q&A: The Singular Point
The Singular Point
Question
I saw that in the book “The First Existent,” the Rabbi responded to Hillel, who asked whether the singular point is not something within our experience, and therefore it does not need a cause.
And one of your answers was that the first cause in the chain of causality must be intelligent and have will.
How do we know that?
And you also wrote about the principle of sufficient reason.
How does that principle contradict the idea that the singular point is primordial?
(I know that the physico-theological argument contradicts it, but both of them really interested me.)
Thank you
Answer
Because if it is not intelligent and possessed of will, then it is a machine that itself requires a creator.
As I explained, unlike the principle of causality, the principle of sufficient reason requires a reason even for something primordial: why is it as it is and not otherwise.
Discussion on Answer
I don’t see any point in continuing. If you read the book, everything is explained there.
Sorry for the late response, but just regarding the physico-theological argument—how do we know that every complex thing was not created spontaneously?
To give examples of watches and majestic things—isn’t that a bit of a problem?
And the Rabbi also said that low entropy is something complex
(correct me if I’m wrong)—how do we know that?