we are finite, in that we are a product and source of the infinite.

~ Ilyas Kassam

Ilyas Kassam Finite Finitude Freedom Infinity Limits Philosophy Space

In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of that person's existence. Just as the human body returned to dust, mingling with atoms of the natural world, a person's existence would return to nothingness.How very clean.Now, as if in belated punishment for the invention of writing, any message once posted on the Internet was immortal. Words as numerous as the dust of the earth would linger forever in their millions and trillions and quadrillions and beyond.

~ Minae Mizumura

Minae Mizumura Anthropology Death Digital Anthropology Digital Immortality Dust Finitude Forgetting Immortality Internet Japan Memory Mortality Quadrillions Writing

Thus the perception of the infinite is somehow prior in me to the perception of the finite, that is, my perception of God is prior to my perception of myself. For how would I understand that I doubt and that I desire, that is, that I lack something and that I am not wholly perfect, unless there were some idea in me of a more perfect being, by comparison with which I might recognize my defects?

~ René Descartes

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