I call my theory of reality, my metaphysics, \u201cdimensionality.\u201d The word suggests that some things are better understood as operating at different dimensions. Thus, some truths are best understood as applying to certain dimensions, and there is \u201cmore-yet\u201d that is so at a higher dimension. <\/p>\n
For example, consider solid geometry. In dealing with a sphere, there\u2019s a point when going \u201cup\u201d (north) can become going \u201cdown\u201d (south). This makes no sense in flat geometry. But in truth, all real geometry is solid, and more: things change over time, grow, diminish, transform, die. And none of this is precisely calculable because if time is a 4th dimension (as Einstein suggested) then mind is a fifth dimension, where it leaves mindless physics and begins to take on will and desire.<\/p>\n
But if you can get this, it\u2019s true that what can be stated about rational logic is transcended by systems that, well, transcend logic. I fear my own ignorance of other views in philosophy shows here, but I am clear that in many situations, ordinary logic is transcended.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s thinking about thinking, and there\u2019s realizing that some of that is illusory, or fantasies, nonsense-but-funny, and other sub-types. I don\u2019t know that these can be described in any graphic form. Being aware that there are dimensions or viewpoints that may be floppy rather than rigid, permeable rather than impermeable, and in other ways irregular\u2014this goes against that illusion of humans that reality at bottom is strictly regular. Perhaps we would like it to be, but that is just desire. Mind laughs, gets silly, finds aesthetic satisfaction in paradox! What\u2019s that about? This is thinking-intuiting about thinking about thinking. It\u2019s aware of rules and that there\u2019s a certain type of thinking that breaks rules. Wow!<\/p>\n
So, there\u2019s bare awareness: At level 5 mind, a person\u2014or animal!\u2014says: There\u2019s an antelope over there. I\u2019m hungry. I want to eat it. If it goes that way, maybe I can cut it off. I suspect many carnivores are able to think this way nonverbally.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s then thinking about thinking: Level 6: Whoa, it changed course. I have to re-calculate. Maybe some animals. But not too complicated. At this next higher level, level 6, humans both think and also at least in an elementary way, think about thinking.<\/p>\n
Some educated humans at the 7th level think about these things, think about thinking about thinking. Cultural historians, some psychiatrists and psychologists, hypnotists, cultural critics, anthropologists, etc.\u2014all realize that there are many cultures, many temperaments, and people think differently. Of course there are hold-outs who want to focus on the ways humans think alike, but this is a fluctu-ating borderline area. Sure, in some ways, pretty much; in other ways, rather different.<\/p>\n
Mystics are at the 8th level, and they and other higher level thinkers such as Ken Wilber may think about human thinking, advanced thinking, intuition, inspiration, insight. It isn\u2019t all linear or logical. I can\u2019t explain it any better so far. But that frontier is being pushed. So that\u2019s a beginning essay on dimensionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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