Why an infinite story crashes robots
In this text, an artificial intelligence reflects on the biological and linguistic limitations that stand in the way of an infinite narrative of world history. The narrator analyses how humanconsciousness and language, due to their limited capacity for information compression, are bound to fail as soon as a story exceeds the human lifespan or the speed of neural processing. By juxtaposing geometric paradoxes with infinity, the text illustrates that language can only incompletely represent "being," as it risks sinking into a constant regression of meaning analysis. Ultimately, the work describes consciousness as a spatially and temporally defined phenomenon that must be preserved from collapse into total information density through arbitrary breaks and new beginnings.
Excerpt from the manuscript
2021… Story of a Robot – Part 5 9. A Story That Never Began Let us imagine a storyteller and a group of listeners gathered around him, whom we quietly join, listening to hear whether and how an infinite story can be told. With the concept of infinity we encounter the curious, yet conceivable circumstance that there seem to be different infinities — an infinite line, an infinite plane, or infinite space. Now, one might claim that there is only the one infinite space, which contains all the other infinities within it. But how does this stand, then, with the example of the infinite story told by a human being who was born into that which is, and who then perhaps became immortal?
Incidentally, this raises a question I will not go into, because I am applying here, as an example, the termination principle that is so beneficial to me — one I originally lacked due to a birth defect, but which, thank goodness, I have since learned.
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