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Originally posted by shunyadragon View PostProblem, science does not propose that there is a concept of the possibility of 'uncaused events.' Science does propose the possibility that the Quantum World is an uncaused existence, and all cause and effect events arise from the Quantum World the realm of Quantum Mechanics.
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostWhat would give this infinite substance necessity or aseity? If it were infinite and it existed eternally or unbounded by temporal limits, that would just be a brute fact. If there's something answering the definition of "God" though, necessity/aseity would be essential to that defintion. Without those properties, that thing wouldn't be God, imho.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostNot following. Perhaps you mean something different regarding necessity and aseity. Necessity and aseity of any infinite and eternal thing, whether it be called god or universe, would be just brute facts.
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Originally posted by Jim B. View PostNot the way I understand them, Jim. They have been traditionally attributed to God, at least in the Judeo-Christian tradition, precisely to avoid the charge of bruteness or arbitrariness. God carries within himself his own reason for being. This is what would make God necessary and set God apart from anything that merely happens to exist, such as a universe/multiverse, even if it is infinite and/or eternal.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostWhatever the eternal, uncaused, and infinite thing is, it is by definition necessary existence, a brute fact as you say. To have existence in, by, and through itself, what you call aseity, is just another way of saying necessary, or brute fact.
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Originally posted by Jim B. View Post"Necessary" and "brute" are mutually exclusive terms, the way I understand them. "Necessary" means "it has to be." "Brute" means "it happens to be."Last edited by JimL; 05-28-2019, 04:29 PM.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostBut if the universe necessarily exists, then, that it exists necessarily, is just a brute fact, No? I'm thinking though that what you mean is that it is necessary in the sense that existing forms within it are dependent upon it for their existence. If so, and the universe is determined, then those temporal forms within it would still be brute facts, no? But regardless, even if the universe is not determined, it being necessary doesn't mean it has aseity in the sense of being a god, or a thinking creator. It would just mean that it is eternal, uncaused, and the random, or unitentional cause of the temporal forms that arise of, and through, it. In other words the eternal and necessary existence, and the temporal forms it takes, would just be of one and the same substance. I think Spinoza it was who put it something like this. "The forms are temporal with respect to themselves, but eternal with respect to their cause."
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