There's a fun book based partially on this premise.
I read it as a kid and enjoyed it, but have thought for years that it was called Flatland. Turns out that, while it covers a similar subject, that's an entirely different book. I think I just read them around the same time. I'm glad I did because I read and enjoyed other Sleator books as a result.
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Ludrol@szmer.info · 17 pts · 1y
IMO steve woudn't kill it on sight but collect it like some sort of SCP. The roundest object in the game: dragon egg isn't destroyed by most players.
DavidGarcia@feddit.nl · 13 pts · 1y
his cube shaped neurons wouldn't be able to process round objects, so you'd just be a vaguely blurry region in his field of view to him
seang96@spgrn.com · 5 pts · 1y
I always thought of it as something like 2 dimensional beings wouldn't see 3 dimensional or how we wouldn't be able to see 4 dimensional beings.
Ludrol@szmer.info · 7 pts · 1y
4D golf has thought me otherwise. I even begun imagining simple 4d object in my mind.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
we can't truly 100% accurately conceptualize 4d shapes, but 3d shadows of 4d objects is piss easy and basically good enough
Ludrol@szmer.info · 1 pts · 1y
I think I can but I can't really be sure that what we imagined is true. I can imagine 2+2=5 but it isn't true.
Also there is aphantasia and whole gradient of imagining capabilities. What if only a subset of humans can imagine 4d objects.
My workflow: imagine a cube, imagine a second cube offset by 4D unit. connect the verticies.
toynbee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
There's a fun book based partially on this premise.
I read it as a kid and enjoyed it, but have thought for years that it was called Flatland. Turns out that, while it covers a similar subject, that's an entirely different book. I think I just read them around the same time. I'm glad I did because I read and enjoyed other Sleator books as a result.
Also the Futurama episode was entertaining.
spujb@lemmy.cafe · 7 pts · 1y
noooo! minecraft steve do not reinvent racism!
mr2meows@pawb.social · 7 pts · 1y
this will be chinese soyjak in 2027
weeeeum@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Hai flakey
Cornflake@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
Hai weeeeum
weeeeum@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Can you say gex?