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b_b  ·  4594 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Kolmogorov Complexity, Causality And Spin
    I would read your "We should search for why our world is 3D" as "why our perception of the world is 3D".

I actually considered writing the reply that way, but I shy away from speculation; we know the universe has at least three large dimensions (four if we count time). I would love to hear a number theoretical reason for three. I can't accept that it is arbitrary. I can generally see why we can't exist in 1 or 2D, as movement around other objects would be impossible for anything solid. But I have never been able to imagine a reason why more didn't occur. I suppose that's because we can't dream in 4D. We can imagine--and therefore reasonably reject--lower dimensions, but only math can tell us about higher ones.





alpha0  ·  4594 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Actually it is interesting you mention dreams, given that our 'normal' sense of time collapses in dreams. Dreamland is a wonderfully strange and distinct reality.