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Normal_Anomaly comments on Settled questions in philosophy - Less Wrong Discussion

32 Post author: lukeprog 16 February 2011 06:53AM

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 16 February 2011 08:39:57PM 1 point [-]

I'd consider "the origin of life" a solved philosophical problem.

I think one could say more generally that the first cause problem has been solved or almost solved, in the first sense that Yvain described. I am not a physicist, but from what I can tell, physicists are finding it less and less necessary to worry about the next step in an infinite regress.