Comment by chii

6 months ago

but couldn't you encode it as "the smallest number that cannot be encoded within the universe's matter/entropy"?

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recursive  6 months ago

If you could encode it that way, then it's incoherent. After all, that encoding exists within the universe. If it resolved to a value, that would disqualify that value from being correct because of the self reference.

ndsipa_pomu  6 months ago

Not really as that implies that you have a list of numbers that can be encoded within the universe, but the universe would run out of room keeping that list.