Definition: Number

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Revision: 30 May 2026

Number

A structure in Mind that is used to order the contents of Mind.
Symbolic content within Mind that serves to order the contents of Mind.
Metacontent within Mind that serves to order the contents of Mind.
Numbers that order numbers that order numbers, etc. correspond to higher orders of metacontent.
Numbers can be compounds (e.g., complex numbers).
Finite numbers only seem to be meaningful in unreality. Nothing is actually finite.
Infinite numbers are required for describing reality.
In reality, every value is infinite and every number is the indivisible Infinite.
Since all is indivisible and all of the content of Mind is one, all numbers are the same total content viewed from a different angle or perspective, so to speak. In this sense, despite denoting apparently different quantities, it is also the case that 2 = 1, 3 = 1, π = 1, e = 1, etc.
The age-old conundrum of whether humans discovered or invented numbers, laws of logic and science, and other deep structures of the universe is immediately resolved upon recognizing that WE are THAT which ideates all of the content in Mind and WE experience it all through the multiplicity of beings. Thus WE create numbers, discover numbers, refine our understanding of numbers, and remember the real nature of numbers beyond understanding.