The eternal regress [1]is the greatest enemy of those who proffer simplistic explanations. The eternal regress is the reason
[2]why it doesn’t work to say that there is a little person in the brain (without accounting for that little person). It is the reason why it doesn’t work to announce that everything has to have a cause and then to explain the existence of the universe by reference to “God” without explaining how God came to exist [3].
The lurking eternal regress is also why no simple explanation is complete. As Carl Sagan once said: “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
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