Comment on They say in an infinite multiverse versions of you exist. Yet there's an infinity of fractional numbers between 1 and 2 with no whole number 3 between, so infinity can exist without every possibility.

• xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Symbols for numbers can obviously be different. Numbers themselves can not.

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  • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pardon? We already have multiple different ways to express numbers, they are completely arbitrary.

    Which facts do you speak of?

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    • alehc@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It could, like we call the number two 10 in binary, or 1+1 or II or whatever. Numbers can have any symbol associated to it, but the abstract object they refer to is the same.

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      • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The thoughts not about objects though, so I really don’t see why that matters here?

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    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did you read my reply? Again, the ways to express numbers can be different, but the numbers themselves can not. Aliens in a different universe may use a different way to denote the number 3, but no matter how they denote it, it is not between 1 and 2.

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      • schmidtster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I did, you clearly haven’t read mine. Your comment has nothing to do with their post, it’s not about objects it’s about the arbitrary distinction we’ve applied to them.

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