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prase comments on Sean Carroll: Does the Universe Need God? [link] - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Dreaded_Anomaly 23 March 2011 07:31PM

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Comment author: prase 24 March 2011 08:32:46AM *  2 points [-]

To me this particular question was always absolutely uninteresting. What precisely dou you find interesting here?

If dissolving means explaining why some people find the question intriguing then there may be multiple dissolutions, each valid for some subset of people. E.g.

  • Belief that the broader its scope, the more important the question is. Questions about everything are broadest, thus most important and worth answering.
  • Instrumental value of this question (and particular answers to it) for justification of various arbitrary philosophies and religions.
  • Belief that any grammatically correct question has a sensible answer, perhaps a unique one. (Failing to recognise the limits of language.)
  • Belief that any fact should have a cause in some sense. (Failing to recognise the limits of intuitions.)