Possible
Project Themes for Infinity
Traditional Papers
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Can a
machine become self-conscious?
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Can there be
a justifiably moral position in an infinity of universes?
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Zen and the Paradox
of the Liar
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What is truth?
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Are extremely
large numbers meaningful?
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Is a definition
of truth necessary?
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An analysis of
infinity or paradox in a work of literature or body of work. (Alice in
Wonderland, The Castle, etc.)
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A structural analysis of
the ritual of Presidential inauguration.
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One or Many?
Cross-Cultural
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The notion of infinity in a
non-western culture
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artistic depictions of infinity
Asia, Africa, or the Americas
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ethno-psychology of the idea
of the infinite
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the infinite in Hopi (or Navaho or Dogon or Warlpiri or ...) myth
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the number 4 in Native American culture
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archaeo-astronomy in North America
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medicine wheels
Fine
Arts
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A painting or sculpture depicting the transfinite cardinals.
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A work of art
capturing the sacred numbers 4 and 7 in Lakota belief.
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A musical composition expressing the infinite sequences of ordinals and
the jump to the limit ordinals.
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A one-act play on the conundrum's of the liar paradox .
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A
Discovery Channel-like video on the world of cardinal numbers.
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A piece
of performance art about the four winds.
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A short story on one of the many numerical/philosophical themes in Rucker or
Powers
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A poem embodying self-reference, transfinite numbers, infinite regress
...
Mathematical
and Scientific works
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A
discussion of converging and diverging series.
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Large
cardinals
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Formulation
of an axiomatic system and discussion of its theorems
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P=NP?
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V
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Patterns
in Pi?
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Do
numbers exist?
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Are there
parallel universes?
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Is the universe
infinite?