I just realized I am closer to 60 than 20.
How do I unrealize a thing?
@danialexis need to the rescue! Because you can't know all of the deviations possible, the future itself requires calculus. You are constantly pressed against an infinite boundary of possibility! But 20 already happened. It is locked. You will always be closer to 20 than any other upcoming age.
@jasod This feels like how my memory works so it must be correct
@danialexis As goofy as it sounds, I think it could stand up. @dmself care to chime in on this? If I am right and every instant of time is relativistically approaching an infite possibility, wouldn't that put any point beyond that instant at an equal probable distance?
@jasod @danialexis
No. Even if there are an infinite number of possible tomorrows, one of them will come in 1 day.
A spatial analogy: Start in the center of a circle of radius 3. Choose a random straight line and start moving. When r=2, you say "I am closer to the edge than the center." Even though you don't know which of the infinite edge points you will reach, you know you arrive in 1 unit, and the center is 2 units away. 1<2.
The *direction* may be unknown, but the *distance* is certain.
@dmself @danialexis that only works in a finite system. If all r=••, including nearest neighbor, distance must be assumed. So you assume you are closer to sixty than twenty. But it is possible (regardless of probability) that sixty is infinitely far.
@jasod @danialexis
Sir, I say, sir, I am just an old country theoretical mathematician. I don't cotton much to these fancy arguments. I reckon 60 - 20 = 40, and I ain't never met, I say, never met a 60 year old who lived infinity years.
Mayhap y'all do things differently o'er yonder, but 'round here we get old the reg'lar way: one year per year, and that's how we like it.
Gawd bless ya now, and lay off'n the cactus juice.
@danialexis @jasod
Oh, you can keep Zeno's aging. Maybe not with the arrow, but definitely with the tortoise.
To reach 60 years old, you must first get to 59, then 59.9, then 59.99, then 59.999, then 59.9999, and so on.
As you can see, there's an infinite number of steps, so you "can't possibly" (says Zeno) reach 60..
Though, personally if I were going to do Zeno's aging, I'd probably start at 34.
🤣 @dmself @danialexis the probability is, of course, that you are correct and that our poor subject is indeed nearing that hilltop. However, the possibility of infinite other things happened that upend that horizon is also true. So do you want to live in a world of possibility or probability?