rscky1@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agoThey say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility.message-squaremessage-square71fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down153
arrow-up1118arrow-down1message-squareThey say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility.rscky1@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square71fedilink
minus-squarealehc@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·6 months agoIt could, like we call the number two 10 in binary, or 1+1 or II or whatever. Numbers can have any symbol associated to it, but the abstract object they refer to is the same.
minus-squareschmidtster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-26 months agoThe thoughts not about objects though it’s about the arbitrary distinction we’ve made, so I really don’t see why that matters here?
It could, like we call the number two 10 in binary, or 1+1 or II or whatever. Numbers can have any symbol associated to it, but the abstract object they refer to is the same.
The thoughts not about objects though it’s about the arbitrary distinction we’ve made, so I really don’t see why that matters here?