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First-cause theory and simulation universe

This 'everything' you speak of only 'exists' because there are living beings here to perceive it. As Camus put it in The Fall: "Is it not universal obliteration, everlasting nothingness made visible? …
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Is it correct to refute that what exists has a cause?

[cause A for the existence of causality] does not exist. Being (as nothing), does not exist. 3. There is a cause for the existence of causality. … Being is the ground of beings and hence causality. 8.Statement 7 contradicts statement 3. No contradiction. …
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Does the essentially Western concept of causality form a philosophical dialectic with the Ju...

Synchronicity or mysticism is hardly mentioned in respectable philosophy. A recent mention in psychology (quoted below) throws some light, and Stanislav Grof writes interestingly about it. Synchroni …
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Is there any principle that requires only things that begin to exist have a cause?

OP: "if the first cause is by definition uncaused, what possible principle could serve to differentiate between these two kinds of first causes?" This can be explained from a phenomenological point of …
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cause “for which all causal relations exist”

Causal relations apply to things, for example: there is a ruler on my desk because I put it there. Cause and reason are synonymous: the reason for the ruler being there is that I put it there. The pr …
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Does phenomenology reject causality, in that there are natural laws to be understood and uti...

(Page 124) Heidegger likens the Principle of causality, or Principle of reason, to an aspect or dimension of Being, but the capability of language is pushed to describe their deep interoperation. … (Page 129) So no, at least this phenomenologist does not reject causality. …
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Presentism and simultaneity

The OP writes: So I can talk about now - in this room, ... But for distant places, which will be moving in some way [relative] to where I am here now, the concept of simultaneity fails? …
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Must time flow?

My tuppenceworth: A second is defined according to the natural resonance frequency of the cesium atom (9,192,631,770 Hz), so scientific time is Aristotelian, based on motion. However, in a higher gra …
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is there any inconsistancy if i claim thing-in-itselmselves are giving our mind "causality"?

OP: can't we just say, thing-in-itself gives us "causality" in our mind, because "causality" is a property of thing-in-itself, itself? … It is slightly more specific than Heidegger's clearing but its relation to ratio/causality is quite similar. …
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a Solution to The Problem Of Casuality and Thing-in-Themselves (Problem of Affection)

I think you're right. Let's say something bumps your hand in the dark. The sensation is processed unconsciously, so a priori as far as conscious apperception is concerned. You already have the idea t …
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ls it true about causality?

"In short, the principle of causality implies the existence of entities that exist but have no effects" First of all, nothing cannot be an entity. …
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