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#212 – Joscha Bach: Nature of Reality, Dreams, and Consciousness

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Is There a Difference Between Infinity and Distinctive?

Everything that we think about needs to be expressed in some kind of mental language. And what we have discovered is that we cannot construct a notion of infinity without running into contradictions, which means such a language is no longer valid. I don't think that you need infinities at all, and you never needed them. You can build your computer algebra systems just as well without believing an infinity in the first place.

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