“Who invented infinity? I think to some extent, the concept goes back earlier than anything that we know. In fact, counting is the very earliest writing that we have. Whoever invented writing already had the idea of counting, and the idea that you can always count one more must surely go back at least that far. We have all kinds of different visions of things that are infinite, and they’re usually terrifying. There’s the vision of the bottomless pit. There’s the idea of time that never ends. If you believe in hell, and if you believe about torture going on forever, a nightmare that you could never wake up from. I understand that a lot of people find thinking about infinity terrifying, or nauseating. At least very upsetting. But for some of us, it’s one of the deepest pleasures. We’re so small and yet we can touch something so explosively large. That feeling of, “I’m bigger because I know how small I am.”
Astral Projection – For All Mankind
