I think we are making progress.Germann wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2019 2:48 pm
The objection is reduced to the statement that a deterministic event can not occur in an infinite number of tests.
This is possible only if in this infinite set of tests there is no combination of causes and conditions that precedes such a deterministic event А. But this combination - like any test - is also a deterministic event.
If there is no test, there are no reasons for it with conditions, and so we deny the causes and conditions to infinity. In all infinity of causes and conditions, there is not a single combination that could trigger a sequence of steps that ends with a given deterministic event А.
The final combination of dhammas before the manifestation of Nibbana is an impossible event.
What I think is erroneous in your statement above is that it is possible to have a process, deterministic or even random, that arrives at a desired outcome for the first time after infinitely many steps. So that while the infinite past contains no magic sequence leading to nibbana, the future does.
I tried to give you a simple example above.