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It’s because you’re caught on thinking dimensions are physical, if you realize it’s all really just data it’s pretty simple since you’re doing it already.
by argd678 7y ago
It’s because you’re caught on thinking dimensions are physical, if you realize it’s all really just data it’s pretty simple since you’re doing it already.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoI can do that symbolically, easy, but I can't "visualize" that. Yes, it is data, but to see something even in my mind I have to make it physical.
- argd678 7y agoYeah that requires practice in getting out of thinking physically. There’s a well known and very old exercise back from the 9th century where you visualize a man sitting in a conch shell, and the man has not shrunk and the shell has not changed size. If it’s a struggle, what you’re seeing is just habit and nothing to do with the mind amusingly.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoI can already think symbolically just fine. If it isn't physical, and it isn't symbolic, then what it is it?
- argd678 7y agoSo that direct sense of understanding something, without any helping intermediates like symbols or visual aids, is just the mind directly. It is its own thing. Another way to look at it, is if everything you thought needed a symbolic or physical/visual aid, you wouldn’t be able to represent everything, you wouldn’t be able to think.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoLanguage fills that gap easily, which is just another form of symbolism. I can think of love because I know the word, feeling the emotion by itself doesn’t bind to the concept. I guess we’ve spiraled down into the mentalese debate, sorry about that.