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>His argument reminds me of the old traditional argument which states that the Universe cannot have been beginningless because that would mean an infinite succession of past events.
>The problem with this argument is that rests on the false assumption that the Universe is actually made up of events. But "events" are things that the human mind artificially creates. They result from our mind's propensity to draw boundaries around things. Since, in reality, the Universe is a seamless continuum, the whole argument collapses. The argument's appeal to the shortcomings of mathematical infinity no longer has any basis.
uh huh