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Originally Posted by Veridical Fiction
You already did.
But to Tore, I understand what you mean when you speak of probabilities and randomness in regard to quantum physics. But I have trouble accepting that it's not possible that we just don't currently know the causality behind the unexplainable happenings in quantum sciences. This is to say that there could be a rational cause to the effects we're looking at as random.
Regardless of how far we think we are and how much we think we know, there is invariably a perception-changing discovery around every corner.
I mean that to tie into the cosmological argument for causality. It seems natural to me to assume that something exists because there were two things prior: The condition for something to exist, and the physical creation of its existence, by whatever means fitting.
Although I do not apply laws of physics that are native to our reality when viewing possible processes taking place prior to the creation of the universe, I do apply logic to the overall understanding of what I observe and learn as a reasoning human being.
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I feel the same way, actually, I think it might seem random because we don't know what causes it, but we might in the future. However, I also do think that the causal argument is unsatisfying because it is limitless. If everything is a consequence of something before it, then you believe in a chain of events - cause and consequence - that stretches into infinity. To me, that's unsatisfactory. As such, I'm open to the idea that that at some point, stuff might just happen. If you wanna claim that I don't know what to believe, well, you'd be right.
(I'm also unsatisfied with the many worlds theory that seems to give a reason to such events, but that reason is that it took place here because it didn't take place in any of the other worlds.)