Take some such transcomputational number, imagine it’s a grain of sand, conceive of a whole beach, or desert, or planet, or even galaxy filled with such sand, and not only will the corresponding 10x number be <∞, but its square will be <∞, and 10(x(10x)) will be <∞, and so on; and actually it’s not even right to compare 10x and ∞ arithmetically

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Abstractness. Abstraction.

open-soulness and desire to connect

the concatenation

stay so busy and bombarded with stimuli all the time. Abstract thinking tends most often to strike during moments of quiet repose.

The basic def. of ‘abstract’ for our purposes is going to be the somewhat concatenated ‘removed from or transcending concrete particularity, sensuous experience’.

anti-Promethean nonchalance that really rubs some people the wrong way.

“Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”