You need to define your question. What constitutes a dimension? Are we talking about countable or uncountable infinity? Once you have done this, you may set up an experiment to find out the answer.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
I don't think it's unreasonable to consider the possibility that something can go on forever. For example if someone accepts casualty than something must have caused the universe, and something must have caused that, and so on and so forth. It doesn't appear that a starting point is really possible if everything is caused by something before it. So is it really unreasonable to consider that there is no starting point?
So is it really unreasonable to consider that there is no starting point?
Not at all, but while it may be reasonable to consider getting to the actual facts regarding the matter would be pretty much impossible as far as our current understanding of the Universe goes.
I don't think it's unreasonable to consider the possibility that something can go on forever. For example if someone accepts casualty than something must have caused the universe, and something must have caused that, and so on and so forth. It doesn't appear that a starting point is really possible if everything is caused by something before it. So is it really unreasonable to consider that there is no starting point?
This I agree with you 100 percent, its things like this that make me don't believe in "time", "gravity", "the earth is round"
If through evolution, individual neurons become as complex as minds currently are, and physical entities started operating through multiple layers of consciousness, would it be meta-metaphysical or still P and MP in higher exponents? Like P, MP, MMP, MMMP.... or P, MP, P^2, MP^2, P^3, MP^3.... or something else. If M = 1 and P = 0 the structure could be a heirarchy in itself by a binary/more advanced coding system. I think reality might be both infinite and cyclical (fractal entity) in every possible sense, 10 01 could turn to MP PM could turn to XY YX could turn back to 10 01 with infinite steps in between, with all of these being multidimensional aliases of 10 01. Of course this is just pondering and I won't take any stance on it. I'm not sure if I make sense but I think I do so that's my best.
It's not as much dimensions as it is possibilities. All possible actions and outcomes exist at once, it's just we only experience one of the lines. We are currently restricted to experience linear existence only, while there are other creatures out there who do not experience their lives in a linear fashion. Time as we know it does not apply to these creatures, therefore they experience the whole, or part, of all possibilities at once. Yesterday is "today" and tomorrow is also "today" for them; there is no discernible difference.
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
What do any of you dipshits even think "there are infinite dimensions" would even mean anyway?
Some people would mean something like "alternate realities", some people would mean something like "dimensions other than length, width, height and time" and some people would probably mean something else all together, so clarification on what the OP is asking about would help this conversation out a lot.
Read Peter Straub/Stephen King's "The Talisman", then the followup, "Black House", and you will understand perfectly how the whole of reality actually works.
Some people would mean something like "alternate realities", some people would mean something like "dimensions other than length, width, height and time" and some people would probably mean something else all together, so clarification on what the OP is asking about would help this conversation out a lot.
Thats why i asked him (in the second response) to clarify. I would assume dimension to be taken in a mathematical sense as above. People like Bill Krozby assumes dimension to be "flat earth" or "gravity is a hoax" and others simply think of an alternate timeline, multiverse etc. If we all had a common notion of what a dimension is we would certainly be on a better track to discovers their numerosity.
^the theory of flat earth has way more proof towards it self than the "multiverse" and you bringing up multiverse in comparison to the flat earth theory is kind of non-sequitur, because if you believe in a multiverse, you would be open to the idea of a flat earth.
you need to get your paranormal privilege checked fat boi
[greentext]>"My theory has more proof than your theory"[/greentext] [greentext]>Uses my theory to prove his[/greentext] [greentext]>Thinks this is solid logic.[/greentext]
I never claimed multiverse was true I simply noted that it may be some individuals understanding of dimensionality. It is also stupid to say that "because if you believe in a multiverse, you would be open to the idea of a flat earth." This is pretty fucking stupid because if you believe in a multiverse you would indeed be open to the idea of a flat earth, or a universe where the natural formation of matter is a flat square rather than spherical. You would also be open to the idea that there is a universe entirely made of ants, a universe where you are sploo, a universe where totse never ended, a universe that is just a basket of fruit in a large white room. Furthermore you would believe all variations of any possible potentiality exist somewhere in some way. For me personally this is a bit far fetched and while things like multiverse and string theory have elegant and beautiful proofs, there are always holes and flaws in them.
But more importantly if you believe in multiverse theory that doesnt mean that you must believe that the earth is flat in this universe. All it indicates is that you could imagine a reality in which the earth is flat. Further there is all the evidene in the world to say that the earth is spherical from NASA to standing on the beach and looking at a boat cross the horizon. In all our years of sailing and exploring, do you not find it strange that no one has yet found the edge? Further, is it not rectifiable with your theory that one can board a plane look out the window and see the curvature of the earth or send a baloon up with a camera and see the same at a high enough altitude?
