The Property Of Infinite Uncertainty; Part 2, ∞ = 1, Infinity Equals One

[myselfaswell]

∞ = 1, Infinity Equals One

 

The Other Improbable Binary

 

This is the second and last, kinda preamble, to The Property of Infinite Uncertainty. If you haven’t read Part 1, I recommend starting with that first, so you know what’s going on, and then onto this post.

 

 

Infinity, to be sure, is not a new idea. It has clearly possibly been around for an infinitely long, long time.  Like most people, it’s a concept that I was first introduced to as a child. It is something that easily captures the imagination. It’s also something that can create a strong sense of nausea when thought about for too long.

 

And it draws out a few really big questions, like: Seriously, LOL?, What?, How the hell does that work? and: How can something have and continue to exist forever with no beginning and no end? Those are questions I asked myself as a child and they have stuck with me ever since.

 

Infinity, how does that work? Yeah, that’s a challenging question to answer as an adult never mind as a child. And after a near lifetime of asking that question, probably tens of thousands of times, I have come to some conclusions. Well, to be honest, I’d say, for me, they’re answers more so than theoretical conclusions, because I can demonstrate, in real life, the impact that infinity has on our world and our lives, by way of the property of infinite uncertainty. But that is part of a much much larger reality, and you’ll have to wait until that gets posted.

 

Anyway, it turns out that infinity is more, and less, than something that just goes on forever. It turns out that infinity is absolutely necessary, has real world positive consequences, and there are negative consequences when it is overly constrained. It exists as a real impactful thing, not just some mathematical curiosity. It also turns out that it has a fundamental expression, description, and that is, ∞ = 1, infinity equals one.

 

Firstly though, before we get into infinity equals one, I’d like to share with you a brief personal history about how all this came about.

 

I was born into a Catholic family, and religion was a thing. It was a really big thing. And that meant having to suffer church every Sunday, holy days and most other days when there was enough pressure applied. Funerals too, but they were a good money maker during the week, by way of £5 tips for missing out on school. Also, fortunately for me, during this excruciatingly close encounter with the catholic church, I managed to get out the other side of it completely unscathed, phew.

 

It was during this early period of my life though, that I was first introduced to the idea of God. For a child, this concept of the existence of God is a truly extraordinary revelation. Something that powerful, yet invisible, and creator of the universe, but, still playing second fiddle to Santa, for obvious reasons, unbelievable. Clearly this God thing was something that needed paying attention to.

 

So it was, during some catholic education stuff in a churchy catholic school type setting, to be honest, I don’t recall the exact time or place, but it was then that an absolutely mind blowing proposition was first put to me, and that is;

 

God always has been, and, always will be.

 

I’m sitting here laughing and shaking my head as I write those words, I kid you not.

 

This is, of course, my introduction into the idea of infinity, which has to some extent or another left me scratching for answers my whole life. Now that I have considered, and resolved, the more fundamental idea of, ∞ = 1, infinity equals one, the scratching has stopped.

 

Infinity Equals One, The Infinite Fundamentals

 

I have described earlier in Part 1 that;

 

“∞ = 1; Is a simple binary statement that something exists”

 

And it is that simple;

 

“They both, ∞ = 0 and ∞ = 1, have to exist as possibilities as it would be beyond any reason to say, or suggest, that creating something from an absolute absence of everything, ∞ = 0, is more likely, or less absurd, than something existing forever with no beginning and no apparent end, ∞ = 1, or vice versa.”

 

Now, that statement above is certainly true, but, really there are 3 states of possibility that can arise. Firstly a perpetual and complete absence of everything is possible, ∞ = 0. Secondly, something can possibly be created from nothing, repeatedly, thus ∞ = 0 → ∞ = 1 → ∞ = 0 ......., and lastly, it is also possibly true that ∞ = 1 exists as a perpetual truth such that ∞ = 0 has never occurred and never will. Quite simple really, and totally absurd, but that’s the reality of it.

 

 

There really isn’t that much more to add and this is more or less the summary of ∞ = 1. It really is a pretty simple statement and concept, if something exists then ∞ = 1. Any other conversation about ∞ = 1 really takes us into the area of infints and the property of infinite uncertainty which I don’t really want to get into at the moment. I will be writing extensively about them and will, very shortly, start that writing. What I will do now though is briefly cover infinity and some related topics that exist at a more universal level.

 

Infinity, What Is It, Maybe?

 

What is infinity indeed. Well, I know it’s not a tangible “thing”, it's not something you can poke with a stick.  It’s a property of creation, a property of things. I also know that infinity is everywhere. Every single thing that exists in this universe has an infinite capacity to it, everything. You, me, the screen you’re reading this from, they all have an infinite capacity. And that is because infinity is a fundamental property of everything.

 

On a grander scale, Infinity is a unitless, scalable property accounting for everything that exists. It is something that we live within, and it is something that we live with.  It can be as big or as small as it needs to be, containing as much or as little of things as there are. To give you a bit of assistance in visualising that idea, I’ll give you another analogous example similar to the computer example I provided in my other article, Infinity Equals Zero.

 

Infinity, Some Visual Assistance

 

So, in an attempt to help you visualise infinity, I will give you an example, which will be a small amount of repetition for some, sorry bout that.

 

Right then, imagine you’re sitting staring at a blank un-energised computer screen, the same computer screen from the last example as mentioned. You turn the screen on, and instantly you see a jet black space with a large rotating red cube. This is real, the space is real, the cube is real. This is the state, in-silica, of infinity equals one. And we know this is the case, because we can measure the size of the cube, whereas previously we couldn’t, there was no cube, nothing existed, thus there was no infinity. But now, we can measure any side, we can time the rotation, we can even measure the redness of the red.

 

You can spin the cube around or you can spin your view around the cube, you can observe the cube from any point or direction you like. The cube, for all it matters is real. It is there in space and time in the realm of the computer, in-silica. That is ∞ = 1.

 

 

Now you’re going to zoom out from the cube. You’re using your mouse wheel and your zooming in and out, and sure enough the cube gets bigger and smaller, bigger and smaller. Then, on the command line of this bit of computer software, you’re going to type in the following command and hit the enter key.

 

Zoom out to 3 trillion light years.

 

And there, right on that instant of executing that command, you’ve just changed your viewpoint by 3 trillion light years. The cube has disappeared, the screen is black and you’ve just vaporised the idea of the speed of light. That is infinity. It is not space, it is not time, it is infinity. It is a unitless, scalable property of everything within which our universe, and perhaps many other universes, as well as many other unknown things could possibly exist too, possibly.  We exist within a universe that exists with and within infinity.

 
At this point in the example, the cube still exists though. If there was someone there, sitting on the cube, they would still be able to measure the cube and it would measure what it always has done, albeit locally. To you though, the cube is so small it, for all practical purposes, doesn’t exist. And we know that infinity is unitless and  scalable because nothing has been created, nothing came busting out of the computer, and there isn’t 3 trillion light years of space between you and the cube.  That is except, of course, if you were sitting on the cube, or looking at the cube from 3 trillion light years away.
 

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

 

This is all, of course, complete speculation. All we really have at this point is an idea that has formed from observations of what can be experienced in this reality, in this universe that we perceive. That idea, however, of this single universe, should not exist as the singular representation of our existence to the exclusion of any or all other options. The fact is that there are an infinite number of possibilities to our reality. It is equally possible that, unknown to me or anyone else, that you were just created, just one minute ago.

 

You just came into existence one minute ago with a complete memory of the past and a completely schooled and learned history of the world around you. You are acutely aware of the present and the realness of your immediate surroundings, and you even have some plans for the future and dinner tonight. Every bit of your reality, it’s all as real as real can be. And it has all been created just for you. The only thing real and with actual purpose in your reality and apparent universe is you …. just let that thought sink in for a second ……

 

…… And now that you’ve just read those last few sentences and you’ve had time to think about the idea, it’s now maybe an idea that is quietly expanding in your imagination that maybe, did I just …. am I the ……. nah, really? What?

 

And so it goes on, and on.

 

This could be an extreme example of one possibility, maybe it’s true, maybe it is actually partly true, who knows? The point is though that it is a possibility, one of an infinite number, and it should never be cast aside as being an impossibility, ever. For therein lies danger as I will explain.

 

We are told about the universe that we live in. We are told about the big bang and all the rest of it. All of this, this assessment of the visible and measurable universe around us is taken as being the absolute totality of things, and there is nothing beyond that. There are no other possibilities beyond that which we can see and measure, and so, like any other dogma, that idea and those whom believe it or tricked into believing it, get mentally fenced in and the gates locked.

 

This same narrowing dogmatic approach is, unfortunately, becoming more and more prevalent in the world today. Pick a topic or crisis de jour and you’ll find it easily enough. It exists quite commonly as a result of ignorance, willful or otherwise, but more dangerously it is also being propagated as a matter of design. It is propagated and sanctioned by the elected and unelected alike, as morbid technocratic bullshit policy and propaganda with one single purpose, and that purpose is to control your mind and have you operate as an unwitting slave like agent for what I see is nothing but a fascist totalitarian agenda. None and nothing of which has your interests and welfare at the top of it’s list.

 

 

This then leads me into the main idea of what I want to talk about and that is the idea of The Property of Infinite Uncertainty. Over the next numerous posts this is what I will be writing about. I will be covering exactly what it is, why it’s important, what happens when it gets shut off, why that has catastrophic outcomes and many other related points, and some occasional distractions.

 

Infinity Equals One, The Sculpture

 

I made this little thing to try to demonstrate that infinity is an integral property of things, all things. That it is absolutely hardwired into the world and universe around us.

 

 

It’s not the easiest thing to exhibit I suppose, and my crap photography really doesn’t help with that problem either. But to be honest, I’m pretty much used to that now and my care factor is rapidly approaching zero.

 

It is sculpted from a single piece of Pine and formed to provide some indication of a level of infinite complexity. It has some gold, silver and copper leaf highlights which are there to serve as a metaphor for what I consider to be the electric nature of our universe.

 

 

Thanks for reading.

[Sirius]

What is next for myselfaswell?

What will you do with the revelation, do you become the prophet of one or is there an application?

[myselfaswell]

What is next for myselfaswell?

What will you do with the revelation, do you become the prophet of one or is there an application?

Well, I don't know that I'd be calling myself a prophet.  I will though be doing my best to inform people though, and if some of what I write becomes prophetic them I get to say ...... bloody told you so.  

And is there an application.  Yes there is.  Understanding the infinite nature of things, and applying that to one's life, provides for a happier fuller experience of this reality, and it is also a contributing factor in how one modifies the passage of time.

In the immediate to short term though, the real risk is, as I have briefly noted, incarceration into a truly dystopian nightmare that will be impossible to break free from.  The construction of this is already well underway, in plane sight, and I'm not really reading or seeing too much concern about it, anywhere.  This would leave me to consider that either a: People know and don't care, or b: People don't know.  I'm going with b.

Just to clarify though, some people do write about what I will be covering, but they're doing so from the perspective of being fearful of the symptoms, not the disease.

[Byrd]

There are multiple types of infinities, and I think you must explain that you are talking about "spiritual infinity" (the statement "you, me, the screen you’re reading this from, they all have an infinite capacity." is clearly incorrect.  Hook your computer up to a lightning bolt and its capacity goes to "burnt toast" in a fraction of a second.  Ask both of us to do pushups for 500 hours without rest, and we can't.  So clearly there's no infinite capacity there.)

And anyone who's studied math is going to look at your philosophy and go "say WHAT?"  There's the infinite set of fractions between zero and 1 (any tiny fraction you can image, I can make smaller by adding any number between 1 and 9 to the end of the denominator.)  

You can have an infinite set made up of an infinite number of infinities... and so forth.  For a VERY brief mathematical view, see this old Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/6...are_there/

I haven't studied philosophical infinity, but it's clearly different.  Math is just spectacularly weird.

[myselfaswell]

There are multiple types of infinities, and I think you must explain that you are talking about "spiritual infinity" (the statement "you, me, the screen you’re reading this from, they all have an infinite capacity." is clearly incorrect.  Hook your computer up to a lightning bolt and its capacity goes to "burnt toast" in a fraction of a second.  Ask both of us to do pushups for 500 hours without rest, and we can't.  So clearly there's no infinite capacity there.)

And anyone who's studied math is going to look at your philosophy and go "say WHAT?"  There's the infinite set of fractions between zero and 1 (any tiny fraction you can image, I can make smaller by adding any number between 1 and 9 to the end of the denominator.)  

You can have an infinite set made up of an infinite number of infinities... and so forth.  For a VERY brief mathematical view, see this old Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/6...are_there/

I haven't studied philosophical infinity, but it's clearly different.  Math is just spectacularly weird.

One of the reasons why I'm writing what I'm writing is because there are so many people out there whom don't get what infinity is, and most certainly do not understand this place we call reality.

In fact, one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard, and it came from a "mathematician" on the tele, is that infinity cannot equal zero.  LOL, the naivete, or is it indoctrination.

Anyway, don't jump the gun friend, statements like "is clearly incorrect" won't help, until you've read the whole story.  Oh, and maybe review my words re:dogma.

[Sirius]

Well, I don't know that I'd be calling myself a prophet.  I will though be doing my best to inform people though, and if some of what I write becomes prophetic them I get to say ...... bloody told you so.  

And is there an application.  Yes there is.  Understanding the infinite nature of things, and applying that to one's life, provides for a happier fuller experience of this reality, and it is also a contributing factor in how one modifies the passage of time.

In the immediate to short term though, the real risk is, as I have briefly noted, incarceration into a truly dystopian nightmare that will be impossible to break free from.  The construction of this is already well underway, in plane sight, and I'm not really reading or seeing too much concern about it, anywhere.  This would leave me to consider that either a: People know and don't care, or b: People don't know.  I'm going with b.

Just to clarify though, some people do write about what I will be covering, but they're doing so from the perspective of being fearful of the symptoms, not the disease.

The questions was directed to my self as much as to you. We have these profound revelations and then in utterance it becomes obvious. Now your just stating the obvious and no longer anything profound unless it leads to action.

What action does infinity lead to? Action itself becomes meaningless in the expanse, it's all a void. I am born and I die, my exitance is in lockstep with time.  What joy does infinity bring me when it takes away that which is most dear to me and that I cannot exist without? I value the beauty in a moment in time that I perceive with my own senses for I know the odds of experiencing it is an impossibility in infinity.

You might say purpose is to fill the void, but matter is entropy made form and then your back in the spiral. Infinity pulls you towards death, but more it's complete obliteration of everything you are. You are created, there is a beginning and end. You are here right now.

[Ray1990]

A singularity would be infinite, seemingly. Most if not all cosmogonies point towards a singularity. Beyond that the suspicion is usually 0/nothing or God.

I've never met a psychonaut that's claimed to go beyond the proverbial alpha or omega and the theme I've gathered from reading over the years is there's nothing comprehensible beyond those points for anything created within.

Enter gnosis...

"Behold! The firmament, a mirror! I declare to thee my form is a dog and I shall bite my tail!"

Just saying in a jokingly way that you or I are hardly the first to "chase the tail" of the infinite question.

Personal opinion is that existence is finite and that it is a closed system but that doesn't offer any answers towards the immeasurable aspects of reality such as consciousness. Maybe we'll find a way to measure it, we wouldn't say consciousness is nothing and if we put aside spirituality for a second we would most likely conclude it is finite too. Yet, the loss of a life does nothing to existence in the material sense.

I know I'm hardly doing any justice to the countless hours dedicated to this particular discussion, I figured a few more words on a page wouldn't hurt. Nice thread, my suspicions is there's always a level of certainty to be found within the defined, I suspect the system we exist in is finite too but I'm open-minded about the possibilities.

[myselfaswell]

What action does infinity lead to? Action itself becomes meaningless in the expanse, it's all a void. I am born and I die, my exitance is in lockstep with time.  What joy does infinity bring me when it takes away that which is most dear to me and that I cannot exist without? I value the beauty in a moment in time that I perceive with my own senses for I know the odds of experiencing it is an impossibility in infinity.

If, considering the absurd nature of what infinity is, and, subsequently, our existence in it, you are utterly tied to to the idea that this is all there is, then I have to say that's a pretty morbid conclusion, considering the infinite number of possibilities that exist.

And, in answer to your question: What action does infinity lead to?, You'll have to wait till the next part, and the part after that, and th ...........

[myselfaswell]

"Behold! The firmament, a mirror! I declare to thee my form is a dog and I shall bite my tail!"

Just saying in a jokingly way that you or I are hardly the first to "chase the tail" of the infinite question. 

Indeed.  We all, to some extent or another, stand on the shoulders of giants.

I'm glad you're enjoying the thread.

[Sirius]

If, considering the absurd nature of what infinity is, and, subsequently, our existence in it, you are utterly tied to to the idea that this is all there is, then I have to say that's a pretty morbid conclusion, considering the infinite number of possibilities that exist.

And, in answer to your question: What action does infinity lead to?, You'll have to wait till the next part, and the part after that, and th ...........

Don't worry mate.  I'm just as surprised as you are about what I wrote.  Don't take me seriously.