infinite regression

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hey! i’ve seen a clip on youtube about a man talking something about this:
'imagine an artist painting a picture of an artist painting a picture of an artist painting a picture and so on… of an artist painting a picture of a landscape…infinite regression, where the artist becomes both the observer and the observed.Through this example he sad that time is a freeway with an infinite number of lanes. what did he mean? i’m awaiting your replies.thank you gentlemen :smiley: !

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Try pointing a video camera at it’s own display monitor.

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How’d he ***do ***that?

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Without actually seeing the video the OP alludes to I can’t be sure, but it sounds like the video author may have been either getting at multiple parallel universes (which would explain the “infinite lane highway”) or the theory that we’re a simulation embedded in a simulation etc (which explains the infinite regression), or some combination. That or he was some proponent of some wacky Time-Cube-esque theory and we’ll never figure out what the video author was on about without seeing the video (and even then…).

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I just gotta ask. . . This wasn’t by any chance a snippet of “Escape from the Planet of the Apes,” was it? Eric ‘Victor Newman’ Braeden, portraying Dr. Hasslein, mentions this somehow in connection to how the apes were able to time travel.

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Going by the description in the OP (which is all we have), the only reasonable conclusion to draw is that the creator of the video is an idiot (and/or drug addled) talking grandiose and incoherent nonsense.

That, of course, is assuming that such a video even exists, a claim for which we have been given no evidence, even though it would to have been very easy to provide.

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That’s the clip I thought of. too.

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It’s turtles all the way down

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Isn’t what he saying just wrong though? I mean if I read this on the wiki correctly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time

There actually is a smallest unit of time that has any meaning in a real sense.

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Here’s a link (CULT MOVIE REVIEW: Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) | John Kenneth Muir) that shows the picture of the infinite regress of artists, and provides this quote from the movie "Time is like a freeway, a freeway with an infinite number of lanes. All leading from the past into the future. However not the same future.”

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Never try to Xerox a mirror. You’ll go back in time.

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Pretty much everything you read about the Planck scales is just educated guesswork. Spacetime might be quantized, but nobody’s really sure about that. If it is, there might be a smallest possibly quantity of time, but there are other ways it might be quantized, too. If there is a smallest possible quantity of time, then our best guess as to how big it is is the Planck scale, a set of units that falls out of mashing some fundamental physical constants together in the right way. But even if there is some smallest unit of spacetime, nobody would be in the least surprised if it turned out to be pi times the Planck scale, or the Planck scale divided by the square root of two, or something along those lines, and frankly, we wouldn’t be all that surprised if it turned out to be completely unrelated to the Planck scale, either.

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When I was a lad, my father was fond of telling this story:

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Easily. All he had to do was type nested quote blocks by hand, which works even though the quote button doesn’t automatically do it for us anymore.

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It’s actually even easier than that. You type it just once, from the opening [noparse]

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Like this:

There are two kinds of people, those who say there is no such thing as infinite recursion, and those who say

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Since when is the time cube a wacky theory?

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No, you’re right, Seems legit.

(But seriously, I’ve never heard Time Cube referred to as anything OTHER than wacky).

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I’ve known this since my first Thai stick. We all did, in fact. Then with a start we went onto other dubious thoughts.