Comments on: Painting “Giant’s Head,” Story About Infinity http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/ Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:41:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Gamma http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12608 Gamma Fri, 07 Dec 2007 22:58:52 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12608 so the lobster zapzenned the crabguake & the urth took over thyme a long purple splinter of lagoons in the wildest party they nebula saw the lichts go under daz bridge of thighs in the NU clear thing with blue laces ^ alice 2 so the lobster zapzenned the crabguake & the urth took over thyme a long purple splinter of lagoons in the wildest party they nebula saw the lichts go under daz bridge of thighs in the NU clear thing with blue laces ^ alice 2

]]> By: e. ian allen http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12604 e. ian allen Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:43:59 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12604 re "Rudy Can't Fail", i googlescholared HughWoodin, and got: "The Generalized Continuum Hypothesis Can Fail Everywhere". makes me think of the utube-vid of "Mobius Transformations" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY&NR=1) in which one definitely *feels* that ones' mindmap/brainmap is being stretched (or is even being given a new way of modeling itself)... is there a new continuum hypothesis in this age of "the current model of god's mind is a www-like hyper-space mental-metaphorical 'network', neither discontinuous nor continous. i mean, if "god's mind" is anything like (or better than) mine, it is highly hyper-connected in every-way-it-can-think-of and hence far more than a 'hole-y continuum' made of holes-held-apart-by anything-but-pointlike 'ideas'. re “Rudy Can’t Fail”, i googlescholared HughWoodin, and got:
“The Generalized Continuum Hypothesis Can Fail Everywhere”.

makes me think of the utube-vid of “Mobius Transformations” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX3VmDgiFnY&NR=1)
in which one definitely *feels* that ones’ mindmap/brainmap is being stretched (or is even being given a new way of modeling itself)…

is there a new continuum hypothesis in this age of “the current model of god’s mind is a www-like hyper-space mental-metaphorical ‘network’, neither discontinuous nor continous. i mean, if “god’s mind” is anything like (or better than) mine, it is highly hyper-connected in every-way-it-can-think-of and hence far more than a ‘hole-y continuum’ made of holes-held-apart-by anything-but-pointlike ‘ideas’.

]]> By: rs http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12506 rs Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:28:49 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12506 so your comment above is along the lines I was going with this. I think the interesting thing is that people, those uneducated in the subtleties of alefs, believe in an infinite-inifinite, or at very least in the continuum, without any real questioning of it. As you allude to above, physics full of this belief. I made a comment in a livejournal community recently where I was saying that imagining woman finite and god infinite was absurd, not because of our finiteness, but that infinite god could have a relationship with finite me that god found worthwhile. I compared it to sex with a plastic doll -- not that I have, but because I liked the metaphor. Anyway ... These are Zen sorts of thoughts in the sense that the awakening experience is a shift from identity as finite and temporary to that which is unchanging and all encompassing. So this guy that insists he is finite (and I would consider just for the fun if making it a woman) might feel rather empty in alefville. Anyway so your comment above is along the lines I was going with this. I think the interesting thing is that people, those uneducated in the subtleties of alefs, believe in an infinite-inifinite, or at very least in the continuum, without any real questioning of it. As you allude to above, physics full of this belief.

I made a comment in a livejournal community recently where I was saying that imagining woman finite and god infinite was absurd, not because of our finiteness, but that infinite god could have a relationship with finite me that god found worthwhile. I compared it to sex with a plastic doll — not that I have, but because I liked the metaphor. Anyway … These are Zen sorts of thoughts in the sense that the awakening experience is a shift from identity as finite and temporary to that which is unchanging and all encompassing.

So this guy that insists he is finite (and I would consider just for the fun if making it a woman) might feel rather empty in alefville.

Anyway

]]> By: Rudy http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12505 Rudy Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:44:42 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12505 Yes, Ian. And this particular crab doesn't believe in infinity. A real spoilsport, and he's run off with Jack's wife in his pincers, lying low in the alef-three-miles-wide city of Alefville. Even though the crab LIVES in an infinite city, he won't admit infinity is real, that's how messed up he is. Heck, so great is this crustacean kidnapper's baseness that he believes in quantum mechanics and denies the infinite divisiblility of matter. Boil him! Yes, Ian. And this particular crab doesn’t believe in infinity. A real spoilsport, and he’s run off with Jack’s wife in his pincers, lying low in the alef-three-miles-wide city of Alefville. Even though the crab LIVES in an infinite city, he won’t admit infinity is real, that’s how messed up he is. Heck, so great is this crustacean kidnapper’s baseness that he believes in quantum mechanics and denies the infinite divisiblility of matter. Boil him!

]]> By: ian http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12504 ian Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:14:12 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/29/painting-giants-head-story-about-infinity/#comment-12504 is an antagonist crab like a "giant enemy crab"? is an antagonist crab like a “giant enemy crab”?

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