I've always been fascinated by i, not simply because the number makes no sense ...
Oh, but it does make sense. I know "i" stands for imagninary (although in electronics they use "j" for the same concept), but it is not imaginary, it is just a way of getting around a limitation of mathematics. A lot of mathematics is like that. That is really what the whole of the Calculus is about, though most mathematicians would be scandalized by that suggestion. At least this is true for derivatives, I havn't thought enough about integrals to be sure, but suspect its true because differentiation is just anti-integration.
I do not understand your I/i illusion to the burning bush. Human beings are not imaginary, but God might be.
Hank
God, on the other hand is immortal, eternal and infinite. When God said "I am" it was a sublime, succinct factual statement of monumental consequence. The very existence of His being changes all things forever. He is the reason for all of this.
Conversely, when man says "I am" it reflects a temporary state of being, an existence transitory and subject to the smallest whim of fate, Nietzsche and Hank notwithstanding. He, man, is the i of that equation, the imaginary threadbare patch that barely reconciles a collection of disparate conflicting realities; the known and the unknown, being and non-being, id and ego, good and evil. Absurdus infinitas.
Man oscillates between these poles, never resting; seldom secure. My answer to bb's most excellent question, arrived at via this unusual path, was simply going to be; Man is Motion. And my implied question is; motion to what end?
i moving towards I.