Quote Originally Posted by Cody View Post
^ never do that again
The Exalted Maynard G Krebbs, lead singer and songwriter of a band which needs no introduction, having been proven as mathematically superior to the other 600 mid 90's rock bands that sound just like them, had an interesting take on this. He argued that the law of causality is the basis of all our intellectual capability. We call X a necessary condition for Y; Y cannot happen without X. And all necessary conditions taken together make a sufficient basis (a cause): if there is no lacking condition for Y, Y must happen.[2]

The law of causality, or ex nihilo nihil, states that everything has a cause. This law (that everything has a basis from which it springs) cannot be negated, because the negation thereof would then be another law: "out of nothing something can arise" (e.g. as a rule of quantum chaos). Thus arises the quandary that the law of causality might exist apart from causation of the whole (i.e. universe), which would effectively negate the entire law. The law of causality must, by definition, refer to all things, without exception, lest it become a self-defeating law.[edit]