[lit-ideas] can you imagine 11 dimensions?
- From: palma@xxxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:34:13 -0500 (EST)
is what you call "imagine" a visualizing of objects?
the discussion goes nowhere until we understand what the question asks.
Consider: lots of people declare, and quite sincerely to be sure, to be
unable to imagine spaces with more than 4 dimensions.
None the less, we have spaces like that (in one theory called M or B, we
have 11 dimensions and there are lively debates: at least the first
conclusion to draw is that those people imagine [do they?] what's not
imaginable by (many) others
or are they all confused and there is a standard of what is or isn't
imaginable? On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Donal McEvoy wrote:
>
> --- Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> > A further problem is with 'imagine' --With G. E. Moore I have many problems
> >
> > imagining apples in a basket. But still, I can imagine an apple in a
> > basket,
> > and 2 + 2 apples making 4 apples. But 2 + 2 = 4 _in the abstract_ it's
> > *harder* to imagine.
>
> This may be true but bear in mind 2 raindrops + another 2 = 1 big raindrop.
> And the same can be said of apples left in a basket where they deteriorate.
>
> Donal
>
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