[ExI] [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: Virtual Reality is where the aliens are

[spike]

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Mike Dougherty
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Subject: [Bulk] Re: [ExI] [Bulk] Re: Virtual Reality is where the aliens are

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 12:15 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>..., I am filled with cognitive dissonance...the others should be out there, and they should be detectable.  Otherwise I and we are still missing something fundamental.

>...I know... don't invent dimension just to pose a hypothetical...

On the contrary, do invent dimensions, if the notion explains some observed phenomenon.

>... Ok, I assume everyone has read Flatland. :)  ... Is our spacetime in a similarly-special address of hyperspacetime?

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Might be.  Note that the 2D guy in Flatland (terrific book is this) posed the possibility to his 3D visitor that there is a fourth dimension but the sphere couldn't comprehend it because he was too 3D.  The 2D guy was already having to open his mind to the possibility of a third dimension, so a fourth wasn't such a stretch.  The whole notion boggled the mind of the sphere.  {8^D

Edwin Abbott was brilliant.

spike