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Cantor on Infinity in Nature, Number, and the Divine Mind

2 点作者 danielam超过 1 年前

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Somewhere recently I read that one can create a chain of mathematical universes, each modelling the next, in which particular objects <i>alternate</i> between properties. (Was it countably vs uncountably infinite, or infinite&#x2F;finite? If it matters to you, I&#x27;ll try to trawl my history)<p>Another aspect of infinity: our (human) Turing Machines have an infinite tape, but only a finite repertoire of symbols. One might imagine angelic Turing Machines which allowed an infinite variety of symbols (on a finite tape?) but I currently believe that to actually compute these could be no more powerful than ours, for to model lambda calculus requires continuity à la Scott. As below, so above?<p>Edit: Note that the difficulties Cantor faces here with orthodoxy and Spinoza rhyme with Einstein&#x27;s declaration that his beliefs were in the &quot;God of Spinoza&quot;.