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a romance of many dimensions. |
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I think the human mind is at least 4 dimensional..discuss. |
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3+1=4 1 being time |
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ouspensky |
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time is an interpretation of movement in the fourth dimension, which we perceive as time. |
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Good book, I read it about 10 years back. Main thing I like about it is how it makes you understand how a spacial 4th dimension (as opposed to a time-based one) could work and also understand why it so hard to comprehend/envisage it. I got it for my Kindle a couple of months back and am looking forwards to re-reading it. |
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tells it like it is. |
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It is so hard that you can almost say that the human mind is never capable to understand itself.. |
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I did, after reading flatland work out a way of visualising 4 dimensional (and more, up to 6 dimensional) arrays in my head. I found it useful when doing procedural texture programming to work out how multiple effects would interact with each other. Me and my girlfriend spent about half an hour talking about this on our first date as it turned out she does the same trick (in order to visualise how multiple parameters interact for her work) and had never met anyone else who did it. Yeah, we're geeks. |
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Ceri JC - it is a good pamphlet, yes ... there are many flatlanders out there (people who are ignorant and think they understand a topic to its completion, all the while being completely oblivious to the fact there is a whole another world (dimension) out there on the matter - of which they have yet to even comprehend exists. flatlanders. |
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I had never heard the expression used outside of the book, but thinking about it, yes it is a good expression in many other contexts too. |
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Less theory, more bmx. |
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I think a lot of people do this. |
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then we are all flatlanders in that case, since our existence is so narrow relative to its potentiality. |
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It's understandable when someone bases their opinions on their (limited) experience. I just find it strange when people: a) Don't acknowledge how limited their experience is and don't seem aware of how this colours their point of view. b) When provided with irrefutable proof that they're wrong, refuse to acknowledge it. |
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:D |
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