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Idiot’s tldr: There are problems that math, as we currently understand it, cannot solve. “Even though Cantor proved that there are uncountably many real number
by RyanShook 6y ago
Idiot’s tldr: There are problems that math, as we currently understand it, cannot solve.
“Even though Cantor proved that there are uncountably many real numbers, that only means there are uncountably many reals for us. We can’t rule out the possibly that God, looking down on our universe, would see countably many reals.”
- kibwen 6y agoAn important second part of that quote is also that, from god's perspective, there would be impossible numbers that only a meta-god could access, and so on and so on. And it's not so much that math as we currently understand it cannot solve some problems, but more along the lines that math has used math to prove that there are some problems that math cannot solve.