Before humans developed modern concepts of infinities, our concepts of reality were really constrained to small, finite things. When esoteric traditions told us about Greatness and Vastness, we had no idea how to imagine them. In the 20th century, however, with the advent of computer science, we invented a bunch of tools to reason about various kinds of unbounded infinities -- if only we had infinite time. To me, there is a vast untapped potential for the savvy computer theorist to further our understanding of our metaphysical reality with such modern tools. (This also ties in nicely with the simulation theory thingy mapping to the idea that this world we think we live in is not the real thing...)
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