Say, there are 10^80 atoms, then there are like 2^(10^80) possible things, and 2^(2^(10^80)) grouping/categorization/ordering on the things, and so on, you can go higher, and the number of possibilities go up really fast.
Not surprising since concepts are virtual. There is a person, a person with a partner is a couple. A couple with a kid is a family. That’s 5 concepts alone.
I’m not sure you grok how big a number 10^43741 is.
If we assume that a "concept" is something that can be uniquely encoded as a finite string of English text, you could go up to concepts that are so complex that every single one would take all the matter in the universe to encode (so say 10^80 universes, each with 10^80 particles), and out of 10^43741 concepts you’d still have 10^43741 left undefined.
bmacho|5 months ago
cleansy|5 months ago
Sharlin|5 months ago
If we assume that a "concept" is something that can be uniquely encoded as a finite string of English text, you could go up to concepts that are so complex that every single one would take all the matter in the universe to encode (so say 10^80 universes, each with 10^80 particles), and out of 10^43741 concepts you’d still have 10^43741 left undefined.
am17an|5 months ago