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RE: Why the universe is most likely not infinite – Part 5: Popular argument against infinity
"The nature of the universe", what do you mean by that?
If you mean that we as earthlings assume that our part of the universe does not exist infinitely, then we have made a prediction about its finiteness. How would that help you personally, for example? How would that differ from your knowledge that your own life is finite, regardless of the nature of the universe?
That depends on what you consider relevant. Maybe you can help me here and think of one.
I have no idea about that, hence my question. There's actually nothing I can think of.
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Well, you presuppose that our own life is finite. If we ask ourselves: What was I before this life? We can think, for example, that all the matter that forms our body existed before we were what we call "us" today. All that matter was previously part of food and other things that later, at the moment of our birth, formed us. So, materially speaking, everything we are made up of probably preexisted what we call ourselves. In the same way, if we believe in souls and spirits, perhaps we can apply a similar logic, and it is possible that the substratum of all that we are may, in one way or another, have existed before. I am not saying it is so, but it is a possibility.
In the same way, and applying the same logic, we may continue to exist, in every sense, after our death. What would that existence be like? That would be another question, but one way or another it would be existence. Whether or not we identify ourselves with that other previous or future existence, is another matter, but in reality it could be said that we are that too.
Probably everything we are, including our mind, has always existed and will continues to do so.
The way I see it, believing that there is only the present and that it is somehow eternal. Things don't "existed" neither "will exist". Things simply exist. Now. And it cannot be otherwise. Things will not be, nor were, but are.
Thinking about this may cause us to see everything differently, and even not to see, neither birth as the beginning, nor death as the end. Everything that has a beginning, I think, has an end. But that which is uninitiated, properly eternal, has no end.
It's fine.
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