The idea of infinity is awe-inspiring. With a mere thought it pushes us to the limits of our imagination, only to find out that neither the number nor the imagination of it, have been exhausted.

But the idea does exhaust the separation between real and unreal, rather it puts into question the very definitions of the two. And it brings forth the realisation that the human thought encompasses an unbounded space and time, of which the so-called real, physical world is a mere subset.

This finite subset of the larger set of possibilities and potentialities serves as a limiting vessel we call the physical universe, within which are also smaller physical vessels that hold in their bounds the unbounded human mind — as in, unbound infinities bounded in finite vessels.

Surely, the mere thinkability of unbounded infinites does not imply that the mind has an access or power upon physically unreal continuums, rather it implies that the mind has the power to know beyond the sensible, the physical, the empirical. Rather, the mind has a way of rejecting being cornered into physically limited realities, and has a want for jumping off the edges of the universe and apprehending what may lie in its depths and what may lie beyond it.

The mind has the ability to sense so many things within this universe that are not material but abstract, like space-time orientation, numbers and mathematics, language, psychology, feelings, instinct of right and wrong, things that are essentially unbounded. It seems like the mind possesses in its a priori framework the instinct of the extra-physical, the........

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