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> So it's not particularly surprising that we come to confusion when we pretend that infinity is a quality of the world as we understand it, or the world as we
by ShabbosGoy 9y ago
> So it's not particularly surprising that we come to confusion when we pretend that infinity is a quality of the world as we understand it, or the world as we can possibly understand it.
Infinity has no physical counterpart or phenomenon. Though the Universe is vast and rapidly expanding, it is still finite. I don’t think supertasks are thinly veiled examples of wordplay, though. I think they’re useful thought experiments that may be the theoretical underpinning of some future form of computation.