Is There an Infinite Horizon?

David Wheeler: From the nature of vision we also get the idea of infinity. And that has to do with the horizon, right? Like I look at the horizon and I see a mountain,. And then I have this intuition that there might be something beyond the horizon. He basically describes it as depths hidden behind depths. It doesn't strike me that just perceiving a manifold of simultaneously existing objects at once would give us a sense of infinity.

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