"It was all one enormous room. Privacy was surely an idea which Didonians were literally incapable of entertaining. But what ideas did they have that were forever beyond human reach?" (p. 85)
See also Privacy.
A Flatlander cannot visualize a solid.
We cannot visualize colors corresponding to parts of the electromagnetic spectrum that are invisible to us.
Maybe minds cannot understand how they are generated by brains?
Didonians experience a different relationship between consciousness and intelligence. Units watch or perform routine tasks until they detect a situation that requires them to combine into intelligent entities. Do the entities remember the animal experiences of single units?
5 comments:
Kaor, Paul!
Don't you mean Flatlanders cannot visualize rounds things like balls, globes, circles?
Ad astra! Sean
Sean,
Two-dimensional Flatland has geometrical shapes like squares, circles or triangles but no 3D objects like cubes, balls, globes or pyramids.
Paul.
Kaor, Paul!
Yes, I should have said Flatlanders can visualize two dimensional CIRCLES but not 3 dimensional cubes, balls, globes, or 3 dimensional pyramids.
Ad astra! Sean
Paul: "Maybe minds cannot understand how they are generated by brains?"
"If our brains were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand them"
I don't know where that quote comes from.
If the human brain were so simple
That we could understand it,
We would be so simple
That we couldn’t.
Emerson M. Pugh *
* Author’s note: Quote from my father around 1938.
-copied from https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/03/05/brain/
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