The Origin Question

In my metaphysics, I've posited two broad classes of components; physical and informational.  I assert that they are here (which may be hasty), but where did they come from?

First, what does it mean to be "here"?  Being here is a state that's detectable by adjacent components, otherwise, it's meaningless.  This, perhaps, reframes the question from "What are the origins of components?" to "What is the origin of state?"  

As hideously ugly as this may sound, the only explanation that still accepts that there was a beginning is spontaneous generation. It just happened.  To some degree, this allows for the primacy of randomness.  If existence just happened with no cause, then that's essentially a random event (the first event).  Interestingly, this only works if the entire universe was spontaneously generated.  If to have a state, that state must be detectable by an adjacent state-holder (component).  This would imply that the state generator and the state detector must simultaneously be brought into existence.  For all intents, the generation of the state generator creates the state detector. A state detector changes its state based on the state of what it detects.  In other words, it has a state.  This creates an existence cascade that results in the creation of a universe.  An interesting question is, is there a propagation delay (the speed of light?).  If so, the universe has a boundary that is continuously expanding (a new edge is constantly coming into existence).  If not, the universe in its entirety sprang into existence.  Interestingly, this model doesn't necessarily create an expanding universe, just a growing one.  The growing universe does not require infinities.  The instantaneous universe may.

An alternative explanation is that there was no beginning.  We'll call this the timeless universe. This is pretty mind-bending, but acceptable, and creates a universe with infinities (e.g., an unbounded sequence of states/events).  It has the advantage that at least within any sample frame randomness isn't required and the universe becomes deterministic.  This probably argues against quantum physics, but perhaps just reframes it.

Appealing to an outside agency just dodges the question rather than answering it because you can always ask about the origins of the outside agency.  This is true even in the multiverse scenario.  All the same, we can call this the created universe.  It does have infinities because the origins of originators is a turtles-all-the-way-down with no termination.

The gap in the 2x2 matrix is, of course, interesting.  I'm not sure how to explain it.

Questions

• Are infinities and randomness two sides of the same coin?

Future Topics

• The nature of randomness.

Research Topics

• Try to discern the core assumptions of quantum physics and its dependence on randomness.