Topic: readings
More reading of Wallace's Infinity led to another side-tour of the world of four dimensions. A tesseract is a 3D representation of four dimentions, the same way we can draw a 3D cube on a piece of paper in two dimensions. Really cool...Talking to Ben about it, he mentioned something he read... If you are a two dimentional thing, you can "look" at a one dimentional being, or a dot - from one end of a line looking at another, per se. If you are a 3D being, which is us, we can look at a 2d object... What this means is... a 4D being... would be able to look... inside of us? Yeah, swallow that!
Anyway, I've been meaning to find a book to read that is about math and metaphysics, and this is definitely one I like. I still have to read most of Godel Esher Bach and the follow ups to that, but that's different from this. First this, then, when we are moved into the new house, that.
Posted by anteojos
at 9:31 PM CDT
