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    420 hours ago

    I always thought of it as something like 2 dimensional beings wouldn’t see 3 dimensional or how we wouldn’t be able to see 4 dimensional beings.

      • @[email protected]
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        218 hours ago

        we can’t truly 100% accurately conceptualize 4d shapes, but 3d shadows of 4d objects is piss easy and basically good enough

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          17 hours ago

          I think I can but I can’t really be sure that what we imagined is true. I can imagine 2+2=5 but it isn’t true.

          Also there is aphantasia and whole gradient of imagining capabilities. What if only a subset of humans can imagine 4d objects.

          My workflow: imagine a cube, imagine a second cube offset by 4D unit. connect the verticies.

    • @toynbee
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      117 hours ago

      There’s a fun book based partially on this premise.

      I read it as a kid and enjoyed it, but have thought for years that it was called Flatland. Turns out that, while it covers a similar subject, that’s an entirely different book. I think I just read them around the same time. I’m glad I did because I read and enjoyed other Sleator books as a result.

      Also the Futurama episode was entertaining.