Can You Name Some Things That Are Infinite?

[Silent Method]

The ONLY time we could have infinite memory capacity would be if we could live forever

You're confusing infinite with eternal.



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Originally posted by Silent Method


...imagination is also infinite (don't confuse infinite with eternal).


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Originally posted by nevertoobig
If this is taken to be true, then that means that memory is also infinite because imagination and memory are very closley linked, if not the same. To remember, you have to create an image.

I'm not sure we know enough about memory to say whether it's capacity is infinite or not - but indeed, if imagination is infinite, memory capacity may be too. I think you might be right.


Imagination is certainly infinite in it's aptitude. Imagination allows us to percive things not present in reality. Memory is certainly intertwined with imagination, but our imgination always supercedes memory in it's aptitude.

We can consider any number of given variables which we summon up from memory - and then imagine something more. That is, we can add to the memories, rearrange them, toggle emotion, etc.

Now, if indeed memory capacity is infinite as, just as their is possibility for and infinite number and combination of ideas, would these ideas not be recorded in memory as they are generated?

 

[Silent Method]

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Good one.

 

[Lift Chief]

God

For those of you who may not accept God's existence...

...imagination is also infinite (don't confuse infinite with eternal).


Also, monads are infinite, and infinitely small.

Imagination is limited by the person imagining... most of our imagination comes from things we've seen, read about, or in some way experienced... most of what we think about is not truly novel.

 

[Jacob Creutzfeldt]

The perimeter of a Kotch Snowflake.

 

[nevertoobig]

Imagination is limited by the person imagining... most of our imagination comes from things we've seen, read about, or in some way experienced... most of what we think about is not truly novel.

So in this way, imagination is made up of memories, and we already know that memories are made by creating images (imagining).

Silent Method...I wasn't quite sure of what you were asking in that last paragraph.

 

[Silent Method]

Imagination is limited by the person imagining... most of our imagination comes from things we've seen, read about, or in some way experienced... most of what we think about is not truly novel.

It's not limited in aptitude. Yes, most of what we imagine comes from our experience. Even so, our ability to imagine is infinite.

Lets look at some simple imagination that is entirely based on experience. Can you not always imagine what might happen, what you might experience later in the day? Surely this imaginative foresight is grounded in what we have already seen and experience - but it goes a step beyond.

 

[Lift Chief]

It's not limited in aptitude. Yes, most of what we imagine comes from our experience. Even so, our ability to imagine is infinite.

Lets look at some simple imagination that is entirely based on experience. Can you not always imagine what might happen, what you might experience later in the day? Surely this imaginative foresight is grounded in what we have already seen and experience - but it goes a step beyond.

Yes it goes a step beyond our own experience... but it is still limited by our mental faculties... i think it's naive to assume that human imagination is infinite. JMO.

 

[Silent Method]

So in this way, imagination is made up of memories, and we already know that memories are made by creating images (imagining).

Imagination goes beyond memory.

A simple way to look at this is that imagination trancends here and now and the culmination of our experience. It allows us to imagine things not only as they are, but also as they might be.

Silent Method...I wasn't quite sure of what you were asking in that last paragraph.

Sorry, my wording got a little screwy there.

"Now, if indeed memory capacity is infinite as, just as their is possibility for an infinite number and combination of ideas, would these ideas not be recorded in memory as they are generated?"

What I mean by this is that you may be right. If we can imagine something, could we not remember what we have imagined?

 

[Silent Method]

Yes it goes a step beyond our own experience... but it is still limited by our mental faculties... i think it's naive to assume that human imagination is infinite. JMO.

I'm arguing that our "mental facilities" in regard to imagination are infinite. I think this shows in who we are, how we are distinct from other animals.


Just to add a flare of theology into this (after all, I believe God to be the creator of all things), I believe our infinite imagination is what is meant by us being "created in his image." Unlike God, we do not have infinite knowledge.

 

[biteme]

God

For those of you who may not accept God's existence...

...imagination is also infinite (don't confuse infinite with eternal).


Also, monads are infinite, and infinitely small.