Sara Imari Walker
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But I think our ability to abstract and our ability to build technologies based on our abstractions and what we're doing now is fundamentally different than anything that our biosphere has done over the last four billion years.
I think we're pretty special.
And I have no problem saying that.
I think we're the most interesting thing in the universe.
Known universe, yeah.
Yeah, I'm sure there is, but I don't think that we're ever going to recognize what that thing is until we actually really appreciate what we are.
Oh, so I just I think it's not possible for like like I guess people want to say the universe is infinite in size.
And I don't know what that means.
I think it just is a placeholder of like we don't understand.
So infinity helps in like certain in certain theories of physics, like to actually make your mathematics tractable.
But to say it's actually like a physical thing to me is.
It doesn't make any sense.
And it doesn't make any sense because I think if you assume, you know, like there's an infinity of things that could exist and that infinity of things exists somewhere.
Like so you have like, you know, max tag marks, mathematical universe hypothesis, all mathematical objects exist somewhere.
And obviously there's like an infinite number of them.
It doesn't actually explain anything about here or like why do we have the things that we have in this universe?
And I think it's I think what infinity is, is it's a feature of humans imagination to define the space of what's possible.
And it physically exists as the boundary of that space.
But it doesn't physically exist out there as a real physical thing.