Re: virus: Lateral thinking (was:More virian propositions)

Jim Callahan (magicjim@islc.net)
Mon, 12 Oct 1998 11:09:11 -0500


OK you can map the infinite but at what point do you finish? Does infinite
space exist? Not for those who cannot grasp the concept. ......Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Boyd <6ceb3@qlink.queensu.ca>
To: virus@lucifer.com <virus@lucifer.com>
Date: Saturday, October 10, 1998 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: virus: Lateral thinking (was:More virian propositions)

>Hi,
>
>Robin Faichney <robin@faichney.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>> They're what keep us on level 2, Eric. Which for some
>> people is "sanity". Level 3 is not a big box, it's the
>> limitless space within which all boxes exist.
>
>Limitless space? As far as I know, such spaces don't even theoretically
>exist, let alone exist in practice!
>
>(even the so called "uncountable" infinities of mathematics can be mapped
>into boxes -- most commonly, the box of real numbers from 0 to 1.)
>
>Anyway, my point is that even really big boxes are still boxes -- and I
>think (as always) that it's wiser to face the truth than to persist in
>delusion, so matter how satisifying[1].
>
>ERiC
>
>[1] Carl Sagan
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