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Infinity & Finity:
"Compressions are always local and they are always tending toward dichotomy, breaking into two radii. We find that whereas in our old way of thinking, infinity was N + 1… We tried to get a static picture of a sphere but we couldn’t quite understand one more layer beyond it and what was beyond that-- in order for it to be something. In the nonsimultaneous picture there is no simultaneous ‘one frame.’ We are not faced with that at all. We find that the very large patterns are quite clearly finite. We get to the finite physical Universe of the physicist; of the finite Universe that I gave you in a description of ‘nonsimultaneous’ and we get then to the local compressions and we find that the local is continually subdivisible. We start with a whole which was finite and then began to subdivide it and the more local it is the more we can subdivide it so there is in a sense an infinity of further dichotomies and subdivisions locally. This is very much like the intellectual pattern goes… so that the only thing you might call infinity here is the further subdivision of finity.
“So it is really never infinite because you are not looking at one part. It is never just Plus One; it is always plus the rest of the Universe when you separate that One out.”
