CAN EVERYTHING BE QUANTIFIED?

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then

consciousness is infinite and therefore cannot be quantified

(100%)

consciousness is infinite

Pfft, yours maybe.

the task of quantifying everything in the universe would require a computer of the same size, complexity, and nature as the universe.

What does quantified mean in this case? For example, everything being quantified in numbers, chemical composition, molecular structure, or to have a law model of behaviour for everything?

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the task of quantifying everything in the universe would require a computer of the same size, complexity, and nature as the universe.

― ledge, Saturday, November 29, 2025 4:28 AM (sixteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

iirc the answer is 42 (100%)

i'm having to confront this problem more often (in a literal sense) as i learn more about GIS and geography and parse the world into, in the end, arbitrary sortings

i wonder if early maps contributed to the development of philosophy and physics. easy way in to grappling with many thorny problems

one has to get smaller and smaller and smaller, to put a fine point on it

Can't measure the momentum and position of a particle at the same time so NO

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the task of quantifying everything in the universe would require a computer of the same size, complexity, and nature as the universe.

― ledge, 29 November 2025 09:28 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

has required

(nods assent)

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