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Hard to fathom (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Well, our brain obviously can't understand 1 million individual items independently at once, that's not how we're wired. But we do understand what 1000 times more means conceptually.

I do understand what I can buy with 1000 dollars. We don't need to see every dollar as a individual entity in our minds to understand 1000 dollars.

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