TheOtherDave comments on Wrong Questions - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 March 2008 05:11PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 13 April 2013 12:12:45AM 0 points [-]

Yeah... dunno if they're actually arguing that a First Cause must exist, or simply differentially focusing their attention on how to talk about the FC in cases where we somehow-or-other expect it does exist without spending time examining the "chain of turtles",.

Comment author: MugaSofer 13 April 2013 12:20:14AM *  -2 points [-]

I don't know about you, but I've mostly been thinking about cases where the universe is somehow infinitely old*, with no temporal "first cause" (and thus no bottom turtle, metaphorically speaking.)

EDIT: *or in a causal loop.