Greg Egan’s Luminous is another handling of the concept.
Ok, I thought you were trying to say something about pointless time-killing for transcended humans. I think studying the math would produce more mental weirdness than counting up to the last number.
Double “huh?”—I am intrigued, but puzzled. Is this supposed to be an allegory about how doing too much math isn’t good?
No, it’s just trying to envisage a world in which arithmetic really was inconsistent, and show how non-sensical it seems.
Greg Egan’s Luminous is another handling of the concept.
Ok, I thought you were trying to say something about pointless time-killing for transcended humans. I think studying the math would produce more mental weirdness than counting up to the last number.