Infinity and the Big Picture

infinity and the big picture:

infinity is a mathematical concept but personally would you want it? or would you prefer to repeat a limited number of things? what if it meant everything bad could happen as well as the nice things? put like that, most would opt for a finite number of nice things to do, would they not?

now theoretically the number of shades of colours could be infinite. however they would still fall under the basic classifications, red, blue, yellow, green and so on. so how are we to regard infinity? that detail or the shade in this case is infinite but the big picture of basic classifications is limited?

we could reduce the spectrum of human life to very few activities. in broad strokes, we sleep, we eat, we move, we walk, we sit and we think and so on. is it not the degree in the detail that gives the illusion perhaps that there are potentially an infinite number of things to do?

let us consider the graphics of the old Commodore 64 computer, 320 x 200 pixels, with 16 colours. what could we see in one minute? here it is clear that the number is a lot but is still limited. does this example reflect on the whole of reality too? that there may be so many things that could happen because of the intricate detail possible that the number seems infinite but is not?

think about the start of time this way, at time zero, we had zero. as time progressed we built and discovered and made things and learned so we gained. perhaps when we have more than enough we simply stop and history comes to an end?

what if the big picture could be expressed as a picture of a group of stick men and women with a few houses behind them and a few thought and speech bubbles? are we really any more than that as human beings?

emotionally speaking, we are creatures driven by want. what happens when we finally get all that we wanted?

CLEARCHARGE