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Humans learn everything they know through experience. We know what hot feels like from touching a stove or what hunger is by missing a meal. However, someone who has never experienced missing a meal will not understand hunger. They may have been told about it by someone, but it is only when they have actually experienced hunger that they truly understand it. In turn, the concept of infinity cannot be truly understood by humans as humans have no experience of infinity. It is possible to define infinity. There are varying definitions, such as being something limitless or as not being finite. Nevertheless, humans do not experience anything infinite. Everything that humans experience throughout their lives has a beginning and an end. For instance, a runner starts running and will have to finish sometime depending on his or her conditioning. Human lives have a beginning and an end. Those who are living now were at sometime not alive and now are. At some time their lives will come to an end. We know this through the experiences learned throughout life. Human knowledge cannot understand infinity. It is possible to conceive the idea through examples, such as self