11/11/11 - What will occur? What DID occur?

[Monica]

I just want to chime in that there is a difference between infinite possibilities, and ALL possibilities.

Exactly!!!

Infinite possibilities means there is no end to the possibility, however, it still allows for some things to be impossible.

Infinite within certain parameters, like an infinite line. Not infinite in all directions.

An example would be an ant crawling on a flat surface. The ant can choose to go in any direction, 360 different degrees of choice to move in. He could walk at 180 degree, 180.1 degrees, or 180.12 degrees, or 180.121 degrees, or 180.1111111 degrees.

There are actually an infinite number of directions he could walk in.

However, he cannot move in the direction straight up. He can go in any direction on the surface, but he can't fly straight up, because he's an ant with no wings.

So while he does actually have infinite possibilities, this doesn't mean all imaginable possibilities are open to him. It just means out of the choices he does have there is an inexhaustible supply.

A fly on the other hand also has infinite possibilities. He could fly up, down, right, left, at any angle. He seems to have more choices than the ant, but still has infinite choices, so actually has the same number of choices as the ant, since infinity = infinity.

The fly and ant have the same number of choices, even though the fly can do things he ant cannot do. They both have infinite choices but this doesn't mean they have all possible imaginable choices.

Likewise with humans. I believe we have an infinite number of choices at any moment, but this isn't quite the same as anything being possible at any moment.

Having said that, I think there is a strong argument to be made for the idea that anything imaginable is indeed possible. That our imaginations cannot imagine the impossible. This of course implies that we have far more possibility than is conventionally assumed.

Excellent analogies! Well said!