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I can't spatially visualize a hypercube. Why is that?

If consciousness is infinite, then why is it limited?

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cerebral   Why Can't We Spatially Visualize in 4 Dimensions?   Dec 12, 2006, 09:30 AM
Rick   Our minds are adapted for the real 3D world we inh...   Dec 12, 2006, 12:02 PM
Lindsay   Our minds are adapted for the real 3D world we in...   Dec 13, 2006, 08:48 PM
Flex   Our minds are adapted for the real 3D world we i...   Dec 13, 2006, 11:38 PM
Hey Hey   There are no dimensions, only different angles on ...   Dec 14, 2006, 07:33 AM
maximus242   There are no dimensions, only different angles on...   Dec 14, 2006, 09:40 AM
cerebral   To Lindsay and Flex, note that I specifically aske...   Dec 14, 2006, 08:22 AM
Rick   Rick is getting at what I'm after, of evolutio...   Dec 14, 2006, 10:24 AM
Hey Hey   When I try to spatially visualize 4D I feel like I...   Dec 14, 2006, 05:42 PM
Rick   If reality (yerrr, I know, what do I mean by reali...   Dec 15, 2006, 10:08 AM
code buttons   Will the consciousness singularity help with prob...   Dec 17, 2006, 12:40 AM
HiddenVariable   [quote name='Hey Hey' post='73758' date='Dec 14, ...   Jan 15, 2007, 11:36 AM
Trip like I do   Will the consciousness singularity help with prob...   Dec 17, 2006, 01:24 AM
Culture   I can't spatially visualize a hypercube. Why...   Dec 14, 2006, 09:08 AM
maximus242   Maybe visualizing in four dimensions will speed up...   Dec 14, 2006, 06:47 PM
brain_drain   I believe we do not have the capacity to 'see...   Dec 22, 2006, 11:34 PM
lucid_dream   very Humean. Einstein didn't believe in Kant...   Dec 22, 2006, 11:49 PM
Rick   Abstractions (or any mental constructions) don...   Jan 15, 2007, 12:03 PM
Enki   The question is "do higher spatial abstractio...   Jan 15, 2007, 12:35 PM
HiddenVariable   Abstractions (or any mental constructions) don...   Jan 15, 2007, 04:13 PM
Rick   Time can disappear from physics. Everywhere the sy...   Jan 16, 2007, 03:03 PM
Lindsay   Rick writes: Rick, what is a "spatial abstrac...   Jan 16, 2007, 06:01 PM
Rick   ... Rick, what is a "spatial abstraction...   Jan 17, 2007, 10:36 AM
Trip like I do   http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa...D7311...   Jan 16, 2007, 09:36 PM
HiddenVariable   [url=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa00...   Jan 17, 2007, 01:29 PM
Hey Hey   For example, there is controversy over when the bi...   Jan 17, 2007, 06:36 PM
Lindsay   Rick writes I suspect that pneumatherapy--non-mani...   Jan 17, 2007, 02:08 PM
Rick   So he had tried memorizing those tones on his own ...   Jan 17, 2007, 03:23 PM
Lindsay   Rick, you ask, "So he had tried memorizing th...   Jan 17, 2007, 04:39 PM
Rick   Yes, that's consistent with my understanding.   Jan 17, 2007, 04:49 PM
Lindsay   AAAAHHHH!!! Keeping in mind that it is...   Jan 17, 2007, 05:48 PM
Rick   There are infinite universe theories that are cons...   Jan 19, 2007, 12:38 PM
solartrinity   There are infinite universe theories that are con...   Jan 20, 2007, 12:50 AM
solartrinity   There are infinite universe theories that are co...   Jan 21, 2007, 05:01 PM
Rick   What is visualising in 4 dimensions? I don't k...   Jan 22, 2007, 02:04 PM
Hey Hey   However, infinite mass does not imply infinite age...   Jan 20, 2007, 08:49 AM
Rick   Rick, do you know how this calculation is made (in...   Jan 22, 2007, 02:08 PM
Lindsay   ...The universe is opaque beyond that decoupling d...   Jan 26, 2007, 08:50 AM
cerebral   solartrinity, most people can mentally visualize a...   Jan 21, 2007, 05:08 PM
Joesus   Manifesting matter at will. The problem is th...   Jan 21, 2007, 09:17 PM
Enki   If I have free time in the coming three weeks I wi...   Jan 21, 2007, 10:59 PM
Trip like I do   ....the 4th ang higher dimensions are merely metap...   Jan 21, 2007, 11:53 PM
Enki   ....the 4th ang higher dimensions are merely meta...   Jan 22, 2007, 11:47 AM
Trip like I do   'Imagine' is a good word.   Jan 22, 2007, 12:24 PM
Joesus   Just as when Jesus said heaven was here on earth, ...   Jan 26, 2007, 10:28 AM
Enki   Eeee, may I ask you gentlemen not to deviate this ...   Jan 26, 2007, 10:59 PM
Joesus   He actually did one better than that in explaini...   Jan 26, 2007, 11:08 PM
Enki   He actually did one better than that in explain...   Jan 28, 2007, 10:37 PM
Joesus   He absolutely did talk about it, in fact it was hi...   Jan 29, 2007, 01:06 AM
Enki   He absolutely did talk about it, in fact it was h...   Jan 31, 2007, 02:54 PM
Rick   ... and we will discuss Jesus in details. ...What ...   Feb 01, 2007, 09:45 AM
Enki   ... and we will discuss Jesus in details. ...What...   Feb 01, 2007, 12:32 PM
Joesus   If you are referring to Zeus Chrishna as documen...   Jan 31, 2007, 05:01 PM
Enki   If you are referring to [i]Zeus Chrishna as doc...   Jan 31, 2007, 07:29 PM
Joesus   Enki seems to be making a habit of posting foolish...   Feb 01, 2007, 10:43 AM
Enki   Enki seems to be making a habit of posting foolis...   Feb 01, 2007, 12:40 PM
Rick   I have found that discussing the non-literary meri...   Feb 01, 2007, 12:37 PM
Enki   I have found that discussing the non-literary mer...   Feb 01, 2007, 12:46 PM
Rick   That if one takes ancient texts seriously, one bec...   Feb 01, 2007, 01:11 PM
Flex   That if one takes ancient texts seriously, one be...   Feb 01, 2007, 04:31 PM
Enki   That if one takes ancient texts seriously, one be...   Feb 01, 2007, 09:25 PM
Joesus   If the original texts are not understood they cann...   Feb 01, 2007, 09:40 PM
Rick   6: "If your brother, the son of your mother, ...   Feb 02, 2007, 08:55 AM
trojan_libido   Ha, I believe nothing, only the I in Me. Enki: Zeu...   Feb 02, 2007, 09:08 AM
Joesus   Deuteronomy is misrepresented, twisted from the Tr...   Feb 02, 2007, 01:04 PM
Flex   Are you rather interested in society created syste...   Feb 02, 2007, 04:15 PM
Joesus   God is not democratic. From the ego we become our...   Feb 02, 2007, 04:37 PM
Flex   God is not democratic. From the ego we become ou...   Feb 02, 2007, 11:33 PM
Joesus   Everyone?   Feb 03, 2007, 10:51 AM
Orbz   At the risk of getting back on topic... http://ww...   Feb 04, 2007, 04:54 AM
dizL   you people sure are good at taking a conversation ...   Feb 21, 2007, 03:21 PM
maximus242   To visualize in four dimensions you need to reject...   Feb 26, 2007, 01:10 PM
lucid_dream   Those are some interesting links, Orbz. Thanks fo...   Feb 26, 2007, 01:35 PM
Enki   I did not forget that I promised to provide descri...   Mar 29, 2007, 11:36 AM
Shamus   How about the fact that there is no 4th spatial di...   Mar 29, 2007, 05:22 PM
Flex   How about the fact that there is no 4th spatial d...   Mar 29, 2007, 08:01 PM
Rick   That could account for the difficulty in visualizi...   Mar 30, 2007, 10:15 AM
lucid_dream   I think the point of the thread was to show that, ...   Mar 30, 2007, 11:40 AM
Rick   ... our imagination is in fact highly constrained,...   Mar 30, 2007, 12:14 PM
Culture   Some people naively assert that human imagination...   Mar 31, 2007, 11:04 AM
Enki   [quote name='Rick' post='77852' date='Mar 30, 200...   Mar 31, 2007, 11:35 PM
Rick   Rick could you post some of the evidence? I am kee...   Apr 02, 2007, 07:56 AM
Culture   Rick could you post some of the evidence? I am ke...   Apr 02, 2007, 12:09 PM
Rick   The meme carrier will probably reply that the unus...   Apr 02, 2007, 01:11 PM
Culture   For those who are really interested in spatially v...   Apr 03, 2007, 09:19 PM
Stephany   is there a way to know how this starts????   Apr 11, 2007, 07:31 AM
lucid_dream   how what starts?   Apr 11, 2007, 07:44 AM
OrionStyles   Who says people can't visualize 5 dimensions? ...   May 18, 2007, 09:17 AM
lucid_dream   Who says people can't visualize 5 dimensions?...   May 18, 2007, 09:27 AM
OrionStyles   Ahh...OK I would say that it is a self-imposed li...   May 18, 2007, 11:48 AM
Flex   I think in way more than 4 spacial dimensions all ...   May 12, 2012, 06:46 PM
Flex   Since this was one of the last posts before I chec...   Jul 17, 2012, 07:23 PM
Flex   Can't find the article for STMicroelectronics ...   Jul 18, 2012, 12:00 PM
Flex   Metatron's Cube   Jul 19, 2012, 10:36 AM


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