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Everything you say sounds like excuses.

Robots aren't intelligent because they're manmade.

Having sex with an infertile wife is okay because women are usually fertile.

It's okay to burn people alive because heresy is bad.

Everything you say sounds like excuses.

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From my perspective, that’s a legitimate critique of . Everything’s got a “because” attached to it.

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Everything’s got a “because” attached to it.

Indeed, all effects have causes.

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So now, after everything we’ve established, there’s something ... weird ... about needing a “because” attached to everything.

It leaves the impression that it’s “worried” about Causality.

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all effects have causes.

I’m as yet unconvinced the Whole of Everything is comprised of “causes” and “effects”. I suspect a vast, underlying, implicate primordial “essence” or whatnot, entirely beyond our grasp.