!!! (metaphysical crap)

[azurelunatic]

You know how I've been saying all along that the human mind is not infinite, and therefore cannot contain infinity? At least, not without a really funky compression algorithm?

I was thinking infinitely large. I was thinking about mere space.

AND I FUCKING FORGOT ABOUT FRACTALS!!!!!!!

*does the tripped-out happy-dance known only to clergy & their ilk*

Comments

[juuro.livejournal.com]

However, if you are going to reach infinity the fractal way, you are going to need serious resolution. To achieve those infinitely fine figures, an infinite number of digits is needed.

[azurelunatic]

Hee! *bounces*

(Coffee.)

[stronae.livejournal.com]

I'm not so sure. There's a data structure commonly known as a stream, that can represent an infinite quantity, like, all whole numbers. The trick is that you don't store them all at once, but instead think on which ones you need when you need them.

Moving further afield, it might have been said that containing infinity by comprehending it all at once is akin to Enlightenment....

[azurelunatic]

Whee! *bounce*

Don't mind me, I'm on heavy drugs.