How can a 2 be a 2 without the 1 that came before it and that is inside it? Even if all there is now is a 3, its existence was only guaranteed due to the 2.99 that came before it, the 2.9998 that came before that, etc.funkervogt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:18 pmWhy is it impossible?BaobabScion wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 11:10 pmWhich point? If you're referring to that future point, then what I'm saying is that that's impossible.funkervogt wrote: ↑Tue Nov 30, 2021 10:35 pm
Let me rephrase my idea: I think it is possible that, in the distant future, the number of living humans will exceed the number of humans who have lived AND died up to that point.
In order for the scenario you envision to come to fruition, there'd have to be a singular moment - and by that, I really do mean an instant of time - where the population suddenly increased by an amount greater than the sum total of all living and dead humans up till that particular instant.
If what you speak of does not occur instantaneously, then it couldn't be possible. That's just the nature of counting and addition.
And this is without getting into the non-mathematical hurdles that make even approaching an amount implausible.