Dear Aleks and Pedro,
let me contribute to Aleks' extrapolation:
Aleks:
"There is a distinct tendency for ideas to disperse. Eventually, each of
us might know everything. There will no longer be a gradient, and there
will no longer be trade. That's when the entropy will win, and that's
when it will be the death of the forum."
No, the natural numbers show that not every one will have understood the theoretically possible web
of energy/ideas/relations to the same extent. Here, again, we see the monopolistic approach to
counting by the sequential method. The knowledge grid may well be there for all to understand, but
the individuals are different. The units of the conceptual grid are unit long, wide, etc., but the
humans are not built up from uniform buildingblocks arriving at uniform cavities into which to
understand. It is a completely different way of counting, where the "possible" is by far
less relevant than the "probable". Let me put it with Wittgenstein and Aleks: the body of
scientific knowledge is finite. Its contents are ordered in an orthogonal space. But the users, the
humans, have way differing attitudes towards the body of scientific knowledge, and their inner
neighbourhood relations are not ordered like an external, scientific order. It may be there, the
same for all, but we will each!
translate it into differing experiences. There will be no entropy in science.
Sorry to raise a controversial aspect in the flow of a poem-like persuasion. Fis turns out to be a
literary, intellectual, pleasure. Thank you all.
Karl
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