If existence 
consciousness then questions about the
existence of infinite set s are questions
about the possible structure of consciousness . Consciousness is both individual and collective.
I see that dot at the end the sentence the paragraph and the
monitor that display them all. I am conscious of all this as
individual elements and as elements in relation to the whole. A
finite structure could be conscious in this sense but not an
infinite one. Things can be added to infinite structures without
changing them. There is not the same particularness of their
elements that exists with finite structures. This suggests that
there are no infinite structures
although the totality of all finite structures may be infinite. I have equated the existence of a structure with the direct experience
of that structure. Direct experience is always particular and individual but infinite structures cannot be particular and individual. That is what I mean when I say there are no infinite structures but only infinite collections. The universe may be potentially infinite but all structures and all experience is finite.
In mathematics a class is used to define the universe of all sets . That universe cannot be a set or we fall into a Russell paradox such as the barber who shaves everyone who does not shave himself. If one equates existence with consciousness as we have then the distinction between class and set must occur at the boundary between the finite and infinite . No infinite structures or sets exist there is only the unstructured infinite collections of all finite structures.
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