Annaka Harris
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Not only can we not go in higher dimensions, but we actually can't conceive of two-dimensional space, even though we kind of feel like we can, because we can imagine a plane, like a very thin plane. But the truth is, if you make that plane thinner and thinner, We can't imagine a plane with truly no depth. That's not something that's imaginable to us.
And so in that little video clip that my publisher beautifully captured in a kind of sidebar conversation, I was explaining to someone on our team about this conversation I had with Jan Eleven where we really are kind of stuck in three dimensions of space. We can't imagine any more or any less. And she mentioned love and said, well, you know, how many dimensions is love?
And so in that little video clip that my publisher beautifully captured in a kind of sidebar conversation, I was explaining to someone on our team about this conversation I had with Jan Eleven where we really are kind of stuck in three dimensions of space. We can't imagine any more or any less. And she mentioned love and said, well, you know, how many dimensions is love?
And so in that little video clip that my publisher beautifully captured in a kind of sidebar conversation, I was explaining to someone on our team about this conversation I had with Jan Eleven where we really are kind of stuck in three dimensions of space. We can't imagine any more or any less. And she mentioned love and said, well, you know, how many dimensions is love?
And she actually got me to realize that there are many, many conscious experiences we have that are not necessarily in space. And that kind of led me down this path that I get into towards the end of the series, thinking about whether space is like color, where Until we reached the science that told us there isn't green out there in the world, that's being generated by the brain.
And she actually got me to realize that there are many, many conscious experiences we have that are not necessarily in space. And that kind of led me down this path that I get into towards the end of the series, thinking about whether space is like color, where Until we reached the science that told us there isn't green out there in the world, that's being generated by the brain.
And she actually got me to realize that there are many, many conscious experiences we have that are not necessarily in space. And that kind of led me down this path that I get into towards the end of the series, thinking about whether space is like color, where Until we reached the science that told us there isn't green out there in the world, that's being generated by the brain.
There are light waves out there, to the extent that we can understand even what light waves are. But the thing we experience is not out there in the way that we feel it is. And is it possible that space is like color, where...
There are light waves out there, to the extent that we can understand even what light waves are. But the thing we experience is not out there in the way that we feel it is. And is it possible that space is like color, where...
There are light waves out there, to the extent that we can understand even what light waves are. But the thing we experience is not out there in the way that we feel it is. And is it possible that space is like color, where...
you know, we only perceive a certain part of the spectrum and the spectrum is larger than we perceive and that it's giving us information about something about the structure of the universe, but that space is actually not what it really is in the way that we experience it.
you know, we only perceive a certain part of the spectrum and the spectrum is larger than we perceive and that it's giving us information about something about the structure of the universe, but that space is actually not what it really is in the way that we experience it.
you know, we only perceive a certain part of the spectrum and the spectrum is larger than we perceive and that it's giving us information about something about the structure of the universe, but that space is actually not what it really is in the way that we experience it.
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I don't think so. I think in the same way that modern neuroscience is showing us that our intuitions about consciousness have been wrong in a lot of areas. I think it's a clue. Well, it's not just a clue. There is a lot we don't understand about the physical world, right? And we've hit the quantum level and we are deeply perplexed.
I don't think so. I think in the same way that modern neuroscience is showing us that our intuitions about consciousness have been wrong in a lot of areas. I think it's a clue. Well, it's not just a clue. There is a lot we don't understand about the physical world, right? And we've hit the quantum level and we are deeply perplexed.
I don't think so. I think in the same way that modern neuroscience is showing us that our intuitions about consciousness have been wrong in a lot of areas. I think it's a clue. Well, it's not just a clue. There is a lot we don't understand about the physical world, right? And we've hit the quantum level and we are deeply perplexed.
And there are many efforts to try to understand the types of things we see in quantum mechanics. And a lot of people, I should say, try to kind of make this connection that, you know, we still don't understand consciousness and that's mysterious and we don't understand quantum mechanics. And so maybe it's part of the same thing. And I think that's not a good reason for putting them together.