I agree the problem of infinite regress can end once a causeless cause can be established, however in the scientific framework where the very fabric of reality can be torn apart and understood to degrees so infinitesimally small that we can't even fathom it, the causality principle gets very blurry. When we are speaking of effects of physical things (matter) it's hard to imagine how one thing came to be unless something else had caused it.Belindi wrote: ↑June 18th, 2018, 3:43 am Thinking Critical wrote:
I deny that the regress is infinite. The regress ends where causality becomes absolute. Causality become absolute is causeless cause, or cause of itself .Seeking causes for events is an unescapable consequence of being human, the illogical fallacy of this mind set however is somewhat self evident in that every path we take eventually leads to infinite regress.
Cause of itself is a name for absolute reality. Our everyday attributions of causes and effects is called common sense. Thinkers are a little closer to reality ; they rely upon science or the arts to steer closer to reality. Maybe mystics, in some sense, know absolute reality.
In a cognitive framework causal principles aren't restrained by the laws of nature, so yes perhaps at some conscious level of reality the concept of uncaused causes may not be so elusive.