I’ve covered this before, but I’ve recently run into the issue again. Well…maybe “issue” isn’t quite the right way to put it. It’s just sort of a quandry…

It began as a little multi-dimensional thought…that’s where it always starts, of course. I was thinking in terms of 3 dimensions…our world is supposed to be 3 dimensional - that’s the general consensus. Objects exist 3 dimensionally and we see 3 dimensional objects.

Ah! But that’s the thing - We don’t. We see 2 dimensional objects and infer that the 3rd dimension exists. We look at our world with our eyes..and we see the flat, 2 dimensional picture. We process that picture, in conjunction with other pictures in various angles, and that gives us our perception of depth…of 3 dimensions.

So, I started thinking about how I could go about getting bionic eyes that could let me see in 3 dimensions…but as I thought about it, I realized that the limitation isn’t simply in our eyes. Our inability to see in higher dimensions is rooted in the way light works…the way sight itself works. (I, of course, speak in terms of sight as a human quality of vision…other beings may see or have differing forms of sight…but that’s not what I’m talking about.)

As it is explained, light strikes an object and in one way or another bounces off of that object and into our eyes…which process the light and turn it into vision. I know that’s incredibly simplistic…but the general idea is, we don’t see anything beyond the linear, 2 dimensional stream that is given to us…

Take a cube. You see the cube straight on, and you have a square..2 dimensional. You tilt the cube, and you have an angled cube…we infer depth…we see that it has more sides…but we don’t see the WHOLE OBJECT. We only see the 2 dimensions before us…So, to truly see the full 3 dimensional object, we would have to SEE the whole object…at once.

A little mind boggling, hu? …yeah..it’s hard to process…that was my problem. How could one possibly see the whole object, at once…to see the whole object at once and process it completely in the brain.

Then I began to realize….sight limits us. We see only what we see..and because of that we can’t see anything that we can’t see…..
I know that was a little circular…rambly..but think about it. We can’t process these things because we can’t firmly understand the idea…it’s hard to put into perspective because there’s no precedent to compare it to.

So, how do you “see” the whole object. How do you “see” in 3d?
And in my discussions with people (read: insane ramblings), the idea of sound came to me. Sound. Don’t -see- an object. Hear it. Or, rather, alter the way the processing in the brain takes sound…such that you can visualize the sound. And attune your hearing to such acuteness that you can literally hear/see the vibrations of the molecules of an object. …

*shrugs* I dunno…just thought it was an interesting thought…

ANYWHO - Life’s the same. Job’s the same (writing at work now cause the dev system went down..). I saw Evil Dead: The Musical on Friday…it was horrible lol but it was entertaining…so I dunno.

Next week is WotLK release! OMFG! So excited!! Can’t wait! =|
…Mm…Guess that’s all, cause I’ve nothing else to say lol

*waves* Laterz