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No actually the opposite. I’m saying we have a finite capacity to imagine magnitude, though it’s not readily apparent. Infinite is easy conceptually, but most people’s pragmatic place holder for “basically infinite” is going to be a really big number. Very big to be sure. But Graham’s number is so large it’s beyond the scope of numbers you’re likely to have conceived could exist. It’s not something you can quite fit in your head even reading about it, like something out of Lovecraft.

Whatever you imagined in imagining God as the greatest thing, Graham’s number is inconceivably larger still.

And that is why Cthulhu wins.



> Whatever you imagined in imagining God as the greatest thing, Graham’s number is inconceivably larger still.

And despite that, there are still more numbers between 0 and 1 than increments required to reach Graham's number.

It seems to me like you are assuming that conceptions of god and integers share the same cardinality when I'm not so sure that is clearly the case.




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