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it’s not about physical experience, though. you just described zero, negative numbers, and 10^10^10... what’s weird is that almost all numbers are inaccessible
by currymj 6y ago
it’s not about physical experience, though. you just described zero, negative numbers, and 10^10^10...
what’s weird is that almost all numbers are inaccessible, even in our imaginations.
- mike00632 6y agoThe real numbers are perfectly accessable in our imaginations. They just have different properties than some other numbers and are used for different things. It would be similarly absurd to say that we can't "access" negative numbers in our heads. Of course we can. We can construct the Real numbers and consider them in their entirety. In fact, we have a conception of the Reals as we use them in other mathematics.