First, I imagine a billion bits. That’s maybe 15 minutes of high quality video, so it’s pretty easy to imagine a billion bits. Then I imagine that each of those bits represents some proposition about a year—for example, whether or not humanity still exists. If you want to model a second proposition about each year, just add another billion bits.
That’s maybe 15 minutes of high quality video, so it’s pretty easy to imagine a billion bits.
Perhaps I don’t understand your usage of the word ‘imagine’ because this example doesn’t really help me ‘imagine’ them at all. Imagine their result (the high quality video) sure, but not the bits themselves.
First, I imagine a billion bits. That’s maybe 15 minutes of high quality video, so it’s pretty easy to imagine a billion bits. Then I imagine that each of those bits represents some proposition about a year—for example, whether or not humanity still exists. If you want to model a second proposition about each year, just add another billion bits.
Perhaps I don’t understand your usage of the word ‘imagine’ because this example doesn’t really help me ‘imagine’ them at all. Imagine their result (the high quality video) sure, but not the bits themselves.