«Benglis manipulates generations of video footage to confound our sense of time; she implies
an infinite regression of time and space — Benglis making faces in front of a monitor of her making faces in front of a monitor of her... ad infinitum.
[31] In On Screen (1972)(7 min, B&W, sound) Benglis visually implicates
infinite regression of time and space, similarly manipulating generations of videotapes to confound the viewer's sense of time.
It's almost like there's
an infinite regression of steps simply because there are so many things going on at the cellular level to make basic physiological processes go.
If every effect must have a cause then that leads me to posit
an infinite regression of cause and effect — not an «un-caused first cause».
I'll never get past
the infinite regression of why the universe needs a creator but god doesn't.
Furthermore, it must differ from all finite entities in having the ground or power of its being in itself, for otherwise we would have to posit
an infinite regression of beings deriving their being from other beings.
Not exact matches
To talk about odds
of it happening and not happening are irrelevant, sorry if you think the odds are so astronomical that its impossible, keep in mind that you feel better with
infinite regression, the most illogical fallacy there is (that god created this universe and then god had to have a creator, because lets get real, you're supposed to have me believe that a creator so complex that he can create the universe just appeared?
Loop
of infinite regression.
The «requires» portion
of my statement is the logical necessity due to the impossibility
of infinite regression.
Avoiding
infinite regression, this physical universe could not have had an
infinite series
of causes because an
infinite series
of causes with no beginning is a contradiction.
Infinite number of universes is impossible since matter is finite, hence this universe is finite, and that «infinite regression» is imp
Infinite number
of universes is impossible since matter is finite, hence this universe is finite, and that «
infinite regression» is imp
infinite regression» is impossible.
Yet, isn't that just a failure on our part to be able to conceive
of any reality where
infinite regression may actually be possible?
I propose pantheistic solipsism as the best way to get out
of the loop
of infinite regression regarding a Creator.
unfortunately this then raises the problem
of who wrote those rules, and then
infinite regression takes over.
We don't know if this is the only universe, if there are an
infinite number
of universes, if
infinite regressions are impossible.
I understand the nothing your talking about; the problem with a universe out
of nothing is it also is a series
of infinite regression.
His son Theo has described his works as having a «frightening quality», showing «
infinite regression, a kind
of annihilation» and there being «an apocalyptic element» in his later work.
But in this case, the consequences are themselves the subject
of the debate, so... I think I can see an
infinite regression coming up here.