can our brains actually learn to comprehend, to envision dimensions beyond the perceptible three? how could you describe higher dimensional shapes in a way that would allow someone to visualise them?

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    1 year ago

    I guess it depends why you want to visualize the shape, and what each point represents. If a point is a bunch of attributes expressed as a tuple of dimensions, the visualization probably doesn’t have much value.

    In some cases, the only reason why an item is expressed as a point is so software can perform operations on it. You can visualize those operations as happening in a two or three dimensional space without losing meaning.