Tag: Tesseract

Blue glowing 4 dimensional object in space abstract fractal background

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News
Date
December 28, 2022

Categorized
Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Flatland (short novel), Modes of Sentience (book), Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Tesseract}

Hard Problem of Consciousness Solved?: A 4th Spatial Dimension?

_{Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes argues that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key} _{News
December 28, 2022

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Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind}

This story was #4 in 2022 at Mind Matters News in terms of reader numbers. As we approach the New Year, we are rerunning the top ten Mind Matters News stories of 2022, based on reader interest. In “Hard problem of consciousness solved?: A 4th spatial dimension?” (April 20, 2022), our News division looks at philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes’ view that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key to the uniqueness of human consciousness. In an abridged chapter of his recent book Modes of Sentience (2021), University of Exeter philosopher of mind, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, argues that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key to the hard problem of consciousness:” He is a fan of the More–Broad–Smithies theory of consciousness: The word tesseract was Read More ›

4D Hypercube Tesseract Array Matrix with Trippy Visual Neon Colors - Abstract Background Texture

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News
Date
December 25, 2022

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind, Physics

Tagged
Dimensions, Flatland (short novel), String theory, Tesseract}

Are Extra Dimensions of the Universe Real or Imaginary?

_{The human mind can imagine and work with a world that we cannot physically apprehend, that follows the rules of mathematics} _{News
December 25, 2022

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Philosophy of Mind, Physics}

In a classic 2018 essay, republished recently at Aeon, science writer and artist Margaret Wertheim, author of a number of books, including Physics on the Fringe (Walker Books, 2011), asks us to think about what “extra dimensions” really means: While on the local level we are trained to think of space as having three dimensions, general relativity paints a picture of a four-dimensional universe, and string theory says it has 10 dimensions – or 11 if you take an extended version known as M-Theory. There are variations of the theory in 26 dimensions, and recently pure mathematicians have been electrified by a version describing spaces of 24 dimensions. But what are these ‘dimensions’? And what does it mean to talk Read More ›

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News
Date
April 20, 2022

Categorized
Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Flatland (short novel), Modes of Sentience (book), Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Tesseract}

Hard Problem of Consciousness Solved?: A 4th Spatial Dimension?

_{Philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes argues that higher spatial dimensions might hold the key} _{News
April 20, 2022

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Mathematics, Philosophy of Mind}

His idea takes us through Flatland, a two-dimensional world, and the tesseract, a four-dimensional cube. Read More ›