I've always pictured Omega like this: suddenly I'm pulled from our world and appear in a sterile white room that contains two boxes. At the same moment I somehow know the problem formulation. I open one box, take the million, and return to the world.
This, down to the white room and being pulled. Omega doesn't Have form or personality. He's beyond physics.
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