Cause and Effect

[WokeBloke]

Would like to hear some opinions on this:

 

Cause - A word to refer to something responsible for an effect.

Effect - A noticeable happening

 

Every effect has a cause

Every cause produces an effect

 

Now I think it is reasonable to claim that every effect has a cause.

Ex. The cause of this post is the body that wrote this post.

 

If there is a cause for everything in this universe then the question can be asked what causes all causes? Or where do causes come from?

What is your take on this?

Must there be an ultimate cause for all causes?

If so, we could refer to that as the uncaused causer since it is the origin of all causes and effects.

Could such a thing exist or is it illogical. Is the uncaused causer the single subject/God of this universe?

[Mason Riggle]

@WokeBloke it helps to understand that 'everything' is the cause of 'everything else'... and where you draw the line between 'everything' and 'everything else' is arbitrary.   When we try to nail down 'the cause' of something, we find that there is an infinite regress of 'cause'.  

Consider.. if I train a dog to bite a child, and it does.. what caused the bite? Me or the dog?  If my dad taught me to train dogs to bite children, and they do, what caused the biting? The dog, me, or my dad? and on and on we go..  When we say 'the dog caused the bite'.. this is a 'proximate cause'.  The dog is 'closer in proximity' to the bite than my dad.  

It's also very difficult for many, to wrap their minds around the notion of 'eternity'.  The notion that 'existence' always 'existed' and always will exist, eternally.. and therefor has no 'first cause' or 'last event', etc.  

Edited November 16, 2021 by Mason Riggle

[WelcometoReality]

@WokeBloke Thank you for sharing you contemplations. I really enjoy reading them! ?

[Carl-Richard]

Why are you starting a duplicate thread? You already posted in this one: