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Yet the stone in my shoe really hurts.
Bert
This statement, in the context with rest of this discussion summarise our ability to comprehend concepts such as infinity at this time and age, for most of people. Yes there are exceptions, but again as Bert pointed out, those exceptional individuals seem to be either Autistic or Manic depressive. Great observation, as the deficiency in some human abilities is compensated by increase in other abilities in those individuals It seems that our understanding of “reality” is tied up to where we are in the time line. From historic point of view, we as the humans come long way from the stone hand axe, lets say 100 000 years ago to the hydrogen bomb in our present. The scale of our development seems to be logarithmic. Most significant development occurred in last five hundred years. The speed of development seems to accelerate during the times of great stress (such as war). That seems to be demonstration of ours survival instinct. After all, all of our pondering about the Universe, Infinity and Reality is the result of our survival instinct at work. Thousand years in the future it is most likely that our we are going to have quite different view of the infinity (and other things) that we have now.
Bert’s comments about intuition deserve separate tread.
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