Comment on Rationality Quotes April 2012

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:12:59 GMT

Well, I can elaborate, but I'm not sure how helpful it will be. "No one can be told what the matrix is" and that sort of thing. The basic idea is that it's the equivalent of the line rising out of the paper in two-dimensions, but in three dimensions instead. But that's not telling someone who has tried and failed anything they don't know, I'm sure.

If you really want to be able to visualize higher-order spaces, my advice would be to work with them, do math and computer programming in higher-order spaces, and use that to build up physical intuitions of how things work in higher-order spaces. Once you have the physical intuitions it's easier for your brain to map them to something meaningful. Of course if your reason for wanting to be able to visualize 4D-space is because you want to use the visualization to give you physical intuitions about it that will be useful in math or computer programming, this is an ass-backward way of approaching the problem.

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