Reality

WHAT I THINK

I think reality is most likely an infinite causal regress. I don’t see why there necessarily had to be a first event. Ending the chain with God does not solve the problem to me; it just moves the unexplained part to God.

Our universe and the Big Bang may be one local stage inside a much larger process. I don’t know what that process would be.

I think the religions humans have created are almost certainly not literal descriptions of ultimate reality. Their conflicting texts, contradictions, and the amount of apologetic work needed to hold them together look more like inherited human systems than reliable access to reality.

That does not rule out every possible godlike existence or something beyond the structure we understand. Infinite regress is my preferred hypothesis.

UNRESOLVED

I don’t know whether causality makes sense at the deepest level, whether anything exists outside the structure we understand, or whether humans can know the answer.

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