[joe_the_user]

Questions like that, "the paradox of the heap", etc are kind of the unanswered question of ontology. Modern AI research has been criticized for not being especially interested in those questions when building their devices.

Such questions reappear on higher levels when you're reasoning about AI. But since the field hasn't been grappling with them overall, I'm doubtful they'll come up with great insight at this point.

[ffhhj]

Zeno's paradoxes are still unsolved, and these hide some deep knowledge about time, reality, intelligence and supertasks. Calculus is just a tool to model it, not the solution to the paradox and its relatives: Thomson's Lamp, Parmenides static universe, and the gap between logic/Turing machines and human intelligence.