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And yet computers have no problem symbolically representing non-rational numbers like sqrt(2), pi, etc. Neither is there any inherent reason why they cannot symbolically represent various levels of infinity, nor why those would be incomprehensible to AGIs (even if the universe is discrete). You're right that only countably many numbers can be represented, but nevertheless even countable subsets of extended number systems can exhibit structural properties that the reals do not exhibit.


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