Day 4: Exploring Basic Beliefs Challenge

Main Point:

Reality is causally closed.

Expansion:

All forms of causation within reality must be internal to it, emergent from it, and structured by it. There are no external sources, no transcendent principles, no supernatural forces acting from beyond. Emergence is always constrained by the causal architecture of the physical world.

Counter Claim:

Reality cannot be causally closed if the structure of its laws and interactions depends on mathematical or logical forms that are not reducible to physical causes. If mathematical truths are not merely descriptive, but, instead, constitute necessary constraints on what can exist or occur, then the causal domain of reality is not closed by the physical.