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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Please clarify: This is ambiguous. Does it mean you disagree THAT external reality is unknowable, or you disagree BECAUSE external...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Have you been reading my posts? I could not agree more with your last post. Science can only deal with inputs recognisable to our...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Our brain creates models of the world around us, but this does not mean that there is nothing around us or that we cannot explore this...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Our abstraction of an external reality is within. Cat :) Is there an external reality? Only a sum total of all external...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Orbitting farmlands.
    I sat for a decade, thinking "How can humans live for ever?". Suddenly, I realised the answer was easy. Invent an immortality pill...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Orbitting farmlands.
    Possibly zero. Cat :)
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    Catastrophe reacted to COLGeek's post in the thread Orbitting farmlands with Like Like.
    I think you are grossly underestimating the cost/benefit/need of such an implementation. Theory aside, show us the math that makes this...
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    Catastrophe reacted to COLGeek's post in the thread Orbitting farmlands with Like Like.
    I believe there is some research that suggests human populations are leveling off. Regardless, we have more than enough suitable land...
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    So what? If you don't know where it is, and cannot access it, and finding it and accessing it requires more energy and trouble than it...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    No one is ever at the "so-called" beginning. An infinite line only exists in the imagination. A beginning, or an end, is an imaginary...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Cat :)
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    Could be any. Just trillions for emphasis. For trillions, read dozens. That OK? Cat :) :)
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    A flatlander universe, in this hypothetical mind exercise, may be likened to a bubble. These analogiees need care. There are actually...
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    A Moebius Strip is infinite to a flatlander, but a (D + 1) can see trillions of them. Cat :)
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    Catastrophe replied to the thread Infinity.
    A (D + 1) knows that. A (D) can only guess. Cat :)