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[-] humanplayer2@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

In any non-empty, finite interval on the real number line, there are uncountably infinitely many numbers = people in this thought experiment. If you think of physical space as continuous, we cross infinitely many points in any finite movement.

I'd like to see one of the numerous paradoxes you refer to.

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