User blog comment:Winrobee/A Hierarchy of Largest Number Principles/@comment-37240703-20191106003039

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What if everything was conscious/intelligent in some level or another? The imposed projection of neurological dichotomy experienced by subjective Earthern organisms may prevent the elucidification of such variegated consciousness, which although slight is quite real. Consciousness lies less in the substance of things and more in the dynamics or relations between parts, and their interpretation. The symbol "9" is used to denote nine objects, but the understanding of number lies not inherent in the symbol, but in our understanding of it. So if everything is conscious to a certain degree, no matter how small, that means at a certain point numbers enter a fuzzy realm where there are half- and quarter-"minds" interpreting them and this is really hard if not impossible to define. Paradoxically, at some point the symbol and interpretation would weave together to create something which may appear to be "number" in the physical realm, but may also not be from another point of view. In a cosmos of shifting materials, the stars that wobble at the end of space-time may be viewed as definitions for numbers larger than we'll ever know, just as photons that hit your eye from a pixel somehow give one the idea of meaning and numerical 'reality'.