I'll probably lose my whole audience with stuff like this

Posted March 17th, 2005 by Prometheus 6

About me, not you

I have absolutely no proof for anything in this post.

We live in this four dimensional universe, right? Three dimensions plus time. Did you ever wonder why you can perceive the tree dimensional nature of things and not the temporal one?

What if I said you not only can, you do...you just don't call it that.

Picture this. If you stand on the geographic north pole of the Earth, it's like being at the peak of a hill. In every direction you look, the curved surface of the earth falls away from you, curves in a single direction you could call "down." Looking out across the universe, what you see "curves" in a direction you could call "the past."

When you look into the night sky, you're looking into infinity. And the average human interprets it as a bowl. You flatten it out. There's some stuff we can recognize, the moon planets, and everything else is the horizon.

Useful? Only as a stepping stone.

See, we flatten out out perception of time on the everyday scale too. For all practical purposes the past and future are pictures on walls that are just beyond our outstretched fingertips.

But you know that armchair quarterback thing you do? When you look into the past and decide what should have been done?And you know all the things you've learned from doing that?

Turn around.

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We live in this four dimensio

On March 17th, 2005 cnulan says:

We live in this four dimensional universe, right?

The conventionally accessible parts of *you* do.

Did you ever wonder why you can perceive the [sic]tree dimensional nature of things and not the temporal one?

I loved the tree dimensional typo.., trees having struck me for the longest as nice n-1 dimensional projections of the long body in time.

Overall, I give it an excellent rating..., particularly the transition from what you (perceive) see to what you can (touch) with the *fingertips* of your mind. This type of Work is all that matters. By comparison, everything else in the life of your mind is merely conversation.

I've always thought Bearden did a great job with his fragmentary piece on Time, Identity and the 4th Law of Logic

However, what is normally referred to as the "conscious, thinking mind" is simply a functioning temporal (rigorously, chronotopological) mechanism that is painfully built up in the individual's awareness (his mind in the greater sense of both thought and awareness, whether monocular or multiocular) by training, conditioning and experience. Its functioning is largely conditioned by one's 90% or so attention to visual stimuli (to the partial reality remaining after photon interaction has been invoked, and to the memory-collated ordering of vast numbers of such photon interactions) and by one's cultural conditioning - which itself has been almost exclusively conditioned and shaped by the monocular photon interaction at base root.

Thus, since the beginning of man, his conscious, rational mind has been trained and constructed to function almost exclusively in basic correspondence with the photon interaction, and his experiential reality consists of the partial reality stripped from fundamental reality by photon interaction.

All "perceived differences," e.g., are created by this deep mind-set. As has been previously pointed out, 6 the solitary human problem responsible for all man's inhumanity to his fellow man is directly dependent upon man's almost exclusive detection, observation, perception, and conception of "difference" between humans, these "differences" being due exclusively and totally to the fitting of men's conscious minds to the photon interaction's monocular separation of spatial reality from nonspatial reality.

I loved the tree dimensional

On March 18th, 2005 Prometheus 6 says:

I loved the tree dimensional typo.., trees having struck me for the longest as nice n-1 dimensional projections of the long body in time.

What makes you think it was a typo?

(Whatever it was, you were right, dammit...)

Prometheus 6