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#318 - Physics & Philosophy

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Law of Gravity

I'm a primitivist about laws of nature, which means I think it's okay to accept things like the law of gravity as a brute facts that are not explainable in terms of anything else. These are what, according to the laws of physics, could have happened. But if you ask me, why do I believe it's correct to say that other things could have happened? And this comes again down to your philosophical conscience.

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