Re: consequences of infinities

jojo <[email protected]> wrote:

> Lane W wrote:
> > jojo wrote:
> >> Samuel Spade wrote:
> >>> jojo wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> if there are infinite universii, then there exists not just one
> >>>> universe in which you are the most important human and the main
> >>>> character on earth, but infinitely many.
> >>>
> >>> Universe means everything, the matter, energy, & gods in it,
> >>> and any multiversii, known or unknown.  There can only be one
> >>> universe.  There may be parallel multiversii or orthogonal
> >>> multiversii, we will never know unless AI bots figure it out
> >>> for us.  And they will probably be lying.
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> that is what infinite does, it makes everything meaningless.
> >>>>
> >>>> but i certainly want to be a very important human, very 
> >>>> important.
> >>>
> >>> We fancy ourselves important, but in the infinity of *versii,
> >>> we are but nithings who strut & fret their mutual admiration
> >>> then then are heard no more.  Only pasta is forever!
> >>>
> >>
> >> my problem here is that we are not saying that things cannot 
> >> exist in infinite instances. we need to say that to solve my 
> >> problem.
> >>
> > It's ridiculous after all. This notion of infinite yous. The 
> > concept is:
> > 
> > there are lots and lots of you, all in exactly the same position.
> > 
> > No son, you're looking in a mirror facing another one.
> 
> lets say out of 10^1000000000000000 instances, two end up with 
> the same position. if we take that match as a1, then with a2 its 
> simply adding those instances.
> 
> since we have infinity, it goes to a(infinite) with exact same 
> position. qed.

How many kinds of infinity are there?

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