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Old 08-21-2007, 11:20 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Thanks for your thoughts forester.

Your conclusions seems to be the more popular consensus among people who have put this problem to thought. But the paradoxes bug me.

I'm not truly sure how you would call something infinite 'everything' because infinity connotes that it is incomplete. I don't see how you can reconcile the idea of a totality of all things existing when existence simply has no end. The very idea behind the concept 'totality' is that it is within closed borders; a complete system.

Likewise, infinity would not only deduce infinite space but infinite probability. Meaning, in an infinite number of time in infinite space, every possibility will inevitably happen at some point (See also infinite monkey theorem). No concept or idea is excluded from being true because an exclusion of a single digit would of course negate the concept of infinity (all possible outcomes). So, inevitably, does this mean that the outcome that space is finite is true at some point in time in some point in space? Does this also mean that the outcome that existence doesn't exist at all become true? Like I said, the paradoxes bug me.

Maybe I'm just trying to understand with my primitive mind the intangible concept of infinity. Who knows; after all, for one to truly know infinity, it would take a brain infinitely large wouldn't it?
"If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, then have faith; if you want to be a disciple of truth, then search" -- Friedrich Nietzsche

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