User blog comment:Tetramur/Well-defined Oblivion number (I think)/@comment-35470197-20200106221111/@comment-39541634-20200108132703

I think that the concept of a well-defined Oblivion is completely beyond humanity's current understanding of mathematics.

The entire concept seems like a contradiction: For Oblivion itself to be well-defined, we need to define it using some kind of mathematical system. But Oblivion is supposed to be stronger than any fixed mathematical system, including the one we've used to define Oblivion itself.

So it looks like we're totally screwed.

On the other hand, who knows what the future will bring? Today we already have well-defined concepts which would give an 18th-century mathematician a heart-attack: From the very concept of various infinities to uncomputable functions. Perhaps in the future we'll have the conceptual framework needed to make sense of the Oblivion idea. But there's no doubt that such a development will require a serious shift in the way we do mathematics.