I've been reading stuff on everything2 and it's been blowing my mind. So I started off just randomly browsing, but then I found some cool stuff about Snow Crash, and neurolinguistic hackers, which I aspire to be one of. So after looking at that stuff, I found some stuff about mindblowing numbers. Sure, normally I wouldn't think numbers to be mindblowing... but whoa. Consider: omega_null, The first transfinite ordinal. If you wrote down all the natural numbers on a piece of paper and asked, "what comes next," the answer would be omega-null. I mean whoa. what kind of crazy number is that?
Even crazier is aleph_null. The first transfinite cardinal. A collection of objects with cardinality aleph-null is the smallest collection such that there are not enough natural numbers to count them all. Whoooaaaa... I can't even begin to conceptualize this number. So anyway, in the meanwhile I was still looking at stuff related to "reality hacking" so to speak, and found some interesting ideas like zenarchy and the like, but I also found some stuff about the turing test, which I can relate back to neal stephenson again (author of Snow Crash), who wrote Cryptonomicon, another fantastically awesome book. See, then I read about this Eliza program, which basically did rogerian psychoanalysis on people, except, it didn't really accomplish anything, and the whole idea of this is kind of crazy to me.
Back to crazy numbers. So what's the smallest number, greater than zero? Well, you can't really do that either. I mean, it'd be the same as something like the limit as X approaches zero from the positive side of X, however, we usually assume that to resolve to zero. Of course, this infinitely small number can't be definitely defined because if it was, functions wouldn't be continuous, math would break down and the universe would collapse into a singularity.
Of course, that didn't strike me as quite as interesting as omega_null, but whatever. I mean, isn't there not a limit to real numbers? So why would they have omega_null? But I don't really know any numbers beyond some small number of power of ten, but blaarggghhh. Enough thinking for today. Back to writing a play review, or wasting time, or something.