(January 21, 2018 at 2:00 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Maybe this isn't strictly scientific but the track record has been that it's a bad bet to go with human intuition over the math. Indeed the further we go, the least reality seems to conform to human intuition (or common sense). The deeper we probe, the less the hard-wired common sense seems to apply. It shouldn't be surprising, really. Our day-to-day existence doesn't involve the macro scale of the entire universe or the tiny scale of the quanta. Why should we expect either to conform to what we experience routinely at our scale?
In case you were responding to me here, I do agree with you. Human intuition is utterly unreliable when it comes to attempts to figure out the metaphysics of this existence, and quantum mechanics is a prime example of that. I put much more trust in logic (albeit still not 100% trust), and it's this logic (or, rather, how I employ it) that keeps nagging at me that "beyond space, there is just more space" and that "before/after time, there is just further time", so when I say something doesn't make sense logically, I am not saying that it doesn't appeal to my limited human intuition. I'm saying that how I'm using logic cannot ever lead to such a conclusion. I actually don't consider actual infinity to be intuitive, but it still seems like that for existence to be logical, it has to comprise an infinity of some sort (and probably even more sorts).
