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great video. one thing that i hadn't thought about before is that a single higher dimensional object can appear as multiple objects in a lower dimension since the connections between those "separate" projections still remain in the higher, invisible, dimension. very interesting

Yeah, there are some interesting philosophical implications there. It's a little bit like the idea of many separate arm hairs... if they each haad individuated conscious capacity, they may think of themselves as distinct objects, when in reality, they are extensions of an appendage that they can't cognate. It's not a perfect metaphor because both the arm and the hairs are in the same dimension, but it's possible that human beings are like the subtle sensory receptors for a higher dimensional unifying sensory ingestor.

This you could argue is somewhat supported by the idea of a curvature to space-time whereby, beyond some hypothetical event horizon, what we think of as the separations of our identity and the distinctions between our concepts of self vs. other, we become re-fused or a better term may be re-integrated into a single form. Piaget describes a bit of this process but in reverse where children begin with a fused perspective of their surroundings and themselves being intertwined, but they lack the capacity to take the perspective of others and so this process of whats sometimes called "spiritual involution" followed by "spiritual evolution"is necessary such that the "fused" or re-integrated consciousness is not unified in an oblivious sense (like a childs) but in what might be described as a trans-rational sense where it carries the capacity for rationality and interchange between self-and-other but also reincorporates the sense of a oneness.

This concept of "volution" as being the root of both the involution and evolutionary processes is covered a little bit in this video by the PhD, Peter Merry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmf-lAUVcAM

hmm... the idea of dimension-specific consciousness is interesting

I have certainly found it not necessarily to be extremely useful as a metaphor. It's hard to say whether these dimensional analogues themselves "are" the consciousness, but that in a way, these patterns of consciousness and self-reflection mirror these dimensional models.. and as we learn and grow and expand our awareness first to ourselves in childhood, and then towards our feelings and our group status in adolescence and then to our duties and obligations in adulthood, etc. these mirror the structural dynamics of the evolution from 1-dimensional structure modeling to 2 and 3 and perhaps even eventually 4-dimensional modeling. And what happens at each leap in depth and complexity, you get a complimentary increase in the capacity to include abstract models into the dynamics of the structure itself.

And we see this evolutionarily as the dynamic emergence of things like symbols which form the basis for the development and inclusion of "concepts" which ultimately lead way to the formation of the basis for "rules," etc. And as we progress upwards along this trajectory, increasingly we become more capable of including the symbolic, the conceptual, the formative and the meta-systems models into the fabric of both our experience of, and our interpretation of, the world around us. Almost as though the world itself evolves along with us as we become greater perceivers of its distinct qualities.

Ken Wilber describes a little bit of this process in the Philosophy of the Matrix (Disc 8 in the box set) where he described Immanuel Kant as arguing the concept that "structrues of the mind" are what give rise to the "structures of the world around us." And these in many ways are interdependent.

https://vimeo.com/49527507