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The concept is not incomprehensible, but what it “really means” is. You can grasp the concept of forever, endless, etc. But there’s really no way to make sense of it. How do you understand an infinite amount of something – that no matter how much you take from an infinite pile, the pile never decreases – there’s always as much left as what you started with. In fact you can create infinite separate piles from one infinite pile and the original pile is just as large as it ever was.
There’s no corollary to this in everyday life, in the actual world we evolved to survive in, so there’s no way to experience it and no sense in building brain structures that could grasp it (if such a thing were possible) since that takes energy and resources and puts them into things that don’t confer a survival advantage. Evolution tends to “punish” such use of resources and they are not selected for in times of scarcity.
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