DuncanS comments on The Strangest Thing An AI Could Tell You - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DuncanS 06 October 2010 10:58:10PM 17 points [-]

Human beings are not three-dimensional. At all. In fact your belief that you are three-dimensional is an internal illusion, similar to thinking that you are self-aware. Your believed shape is a projection that helps you to survive, as you are in fact an evolved being, but your full environment is actually utterly different to the 3D world you believe you inhabit. You both sense the projections of others, and (I can't explain it more fully) transmit your own.

I cannot successfully describe to you what shape you really are. At all. But I can tell that in fact many anosognosiacs still have two working arms, but a defective three-dimensional projection. Hence the confusion....

Comment author: Peterdjones 09 June 2011 12:04:30PM 2 points [-]

That's actually what Kant believed about space.