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Bookmark or Share- reality - Schrödinger's cat ++ - Philosophy Stack ExchangeBut if the question is as to whether an infinite nesting of observers and super-/sub-observers reveals that it is impossible for there to be such a reality: why wouldn't the possibility of an infinite sequence, alongside the possibility of finite such sequences, allow for either type of corresponding possible world? The argument:
- Could there ever be evidence for an infinite being?Conceiving that which nothing greater than can be conceived, doesn’t imply the necessity of an actual infinite being in the outside world, because ‘infinite being’ when conceived in the mind (contrary to the external world) is just a concept and therefore limited and finite, whereas it is in reality that an infinite being is really ...
- Is it possible that we are stuck in a loop of endless life?But the 'infinite number of chances' does not entail that your precise replaca will or does exist at the same time as you; and no replica of you actually is you. One possibility is, however, that the materials of which you consist are reconstituted in another universe, so that you are literally re-created.
- Does infinity exist in the real world,other than just in mathmatics?Yes. But the infinite only exists in the form of the finite. Example: Assume a time line without begin or end. There are infinitely many points on the line. But in actuality/reality only 1 point ('now') exist, which moves on the timeline. Every measure of time also only exists as a finite measure.
- Does science require the exclusion of the "infinite"?Towards the end of the nineteenth century an acrimonious exchange took place between Kronecker and Cantor regarding the reality of the actual (as opposed to potential) infinite. Kronecker claimed that only the finite integers really exist and all else is merely the work of man.
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