Imagine a printer, with an unlimited stack of papers.
The first page that comes out of the printer is blank, pure white.
The second page comes out with just a black pixel on the upper left side of the paper.
The third page has that pixel move just to the right of the previous pixel.
On each paper that comes out, the pixel continues to move across the page.
When the pixel reaches the end of the page, the next series of pages have 2 pixels on it, that travel along the page.
After that, you have 3 pixels, then 4 pixels, 10, a hundred, a million, trillions, all the pixels moving and shifting over one another.
The very last page is pure black, covered in pixels.
What can you find in between all of those pages?
Everything.
Everything that can possibly be imagined.
A picture of you on a dragon.
You sitting at the table with the 12 apostles.
A giant boat sitting atop a mountain,
An eye in an eye.
You and me in each other's arms.
Everything that you can imagine, and everything that you would have never imagined given many lifetimes.
Now imagine that the printer is in colour.
Would that mean that our imagination is limited? If someone sat down and memorised each page, would that mean he would have acquired all of human imagination possible? Nothing else to invent? They would know every story ever written (As it can print text too.)
All movies shown, image by image?
I think it's sad that there is a limit to our imagination, but also exciting to discover everything.
I hope that I am wrong about this machine, I hope that there is something that the machine cannot print. Emotion, I guess? What if there was an emotion machine that can make you feel every known emotions felt by man, at every intensity?
What if the machine could also print every sound possible? Mozart, Ice Cube, Jain?
Could we build a machine that does the same for smells? Taste?
Are we only limited by our senses?
Are there any senses that we can't access?
Is the world limited, or unlimited?
What if we could plug in all these machines directly in our brain?
Is it better to know all, or discover life through time?
Hopefully, I will know one day :)
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