What are those indescribable beings in the Cthulhu Mythos? In order to maintain their sense of mystery and terror, the creators usually do not explain them, but only use some frightening rhetoric to pile them up, allowing readers to feel their existence from a sense of powerlessness. But the commonly used words and phrases are nothing more than being unable to look directly, being unable to understand, etc.
Also, when many creators describe 'gods' in a more rational way, they use the term 'high-dimensional creatures'. The same term is also commonly seen in many science fiction works. It is usually accompanied by some descriptions such as 'incomprehensible'.
Let’s not talk about how these high-dimensional creatures appear in the real world of three-dimensional space. What would be the reaction if their images were seen?
Can't understand?
If it is just "incomprehensible", it may not be enough to describe its seriousness. Because ordinary people's understanding of incomprehensible things is like playing chess. Ordinary people can calculate the next three or five moves, and geniuses can calculate the next one hundred, two hundred, or even one thousand moves. Simply put, it is the 'incomprehensibility' between ordinary people and geniuses.
But in fact, facing the "incomprehensibility" of high-dimensional creatures should be a more dangerous situation. It's not just that you can't understand or understand, it's that your brain can't even process the information it receives.
The world that people see is after receiving visible light from the outside world through the eyes, all the information is processed by the brain, and finally forms the cognitive appearance. Therefore, the world seen by color blindness, the world seen by cats and dogs, and the world seen by insects with compound eyes are all different from the world seen by ordinary people.
Perhaps when facing high-dimensional creatures, the human brain will try to convert them into a form that can be understood by human cognition. However, the human brain can only process cognition below three dimensions, and excess information will become junk noise and interfere with the brain's processing process.
So what happens when the brain is presented with too much information to handle? If you can't imagine what happens to your brain, take a look at what happens to your computer's processor when faced with this problem. Nothing more than crashes, overloads, overheating and burnout. The brain is actually much the same.
Although the human body has a self-protection mechanism, it is still below a certain limit. When it exceeds that limit, it remains what it should be. So when the brain is overwhelmed by a large amount of information that cannot be processed, and people's physiological conditions are controlled by the brain, what will happen when this harm is reflected in the physiology?
Thinking about it this way, physiological phenomena such as bleeding from seven orifices, going crazy and self-mutilation, etc. are not so difficult to understand.
In some beliefs, God will appear in different images according to different people. This is actually a manifestation of the brain's self-protection mechanism, because there is already a rough outline of 'God' in one's own cognition. Then redundant information will be automatically ignored and eliminated by the brain.
That is to say, people use their own will and subjectivity to only see what they want to see and ignore what they don't want to see. The more you believe something exists and give it an image, the more clearly you will be able to see its existence. This not only explains the so-called gods in belief, but also explains those indescribable things, including ghosts, souls and other things that science cannot explain.
If you don’t understand them deeply enough, you may think you can’t see them when they appear in front of you. This can also explain why some elders on Earth say that when they encounter ghosts, they treat each other as if they cannot see each other. When you can ignore ghosts, you really can't see each other.
But doing so does not count as understanding higher-dimensional creatures. It's just a partial generalization and a glimpse of the leopard.
Then it seems to be an impossible task for people to understand high-dimensional creatures. Because the world below the dimension you live in can be processed by the brain, and it naturally falls into the category of understandable; then will the world above the dimension you live in be forever incomprehensible due to innate physiological limitations?
of course not.
Human physiological limitations prevent us from looking directly at the sun. But as long as we use something similar to sunglasses, we can observe the sun that was previously impossible to see directly.
There will always be tools to help us observe different worlds, as long as we find the right method.
So back to the question, what are dimensions?
In simpler terms, it means how many lines can be perpendicular to each other when they intersect at the same point, that is, how many dimensions of space there are. Except that one dimension has only one line that cannot intersect and be perpendicular to other lines, spaces above two dimensions must abide by this principle in mathematics.
In other words, the fourth dimension above three dimensions is not the 'time' that most people recognize, but the fourth axis that is perpendicular to the first three axes. This is one of the reasons why some scientists believe that time does not exist.
In mathematics, high dimensions cannot be used to draw graphs, they only exist in calculations. However, graphics can be drawn using projection, which requires dimensionality reduction.
It can be said that human belief is a mechanism similar to screening high-dimensional information. So can we design a mathematical dimensionality reduction method to artificially screen or combine information from multiple dimensions so that it can ultimately be processed by the human brain. In fact, similar things were already being done on Earth before time travel, a science called data analysis.
Simply put, what that science is doing is the collection of data, the organization of data, and the presentation of data. These actions on Earth are performed by data scientists using computers and programs to process hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of millions or trillions of pieces of data. Various methods are used to organize inorganic data with several or even hundreds of thousands of dimensions into messages that people can understand.
When humans see high-dimensional creatures, everything that their eyes, ears, mouth and nose come into contact with is part of the data collection. Unfortunately, we only use our brains to organize data.
For this kind of high-dimensional data, the human brain may have passed the test in terms of hardware, that is, computing power, but it suffers from the lack of suitable software, that is, programs to process it. Because we are inherently unable to understand space above three dimensions, we are naturally unable to process data in this area. Therefore, it is stuck at this stage, and naturally the results presented by the final data will not be obtained.
But, that's on Earth. And what about in Lost Land? What will it be like in this magical world?
After thinking about this, someone had an answer in his mind, and he stopped the advancing Demon King. Seeing the doubtful expression on that delicate and beautiful face, Lin Wubi said seriously: "Stop for a moment and help me protect the law."
"What is a Dharma protector?"
...Okay, I thought I was traveling through the world of martial arts. Lin sat cross-legged helplessly and said, "I am about to enter the dreamland. Please help me stay around to protect my safety."
"Now?"
"Yes. If what I want to do can be accomplished, it will be helpful to our trip. It shouldn't take too much time, because I already have a general direction." After saying that, Lin lowered his head before agreeing. Then he fell asleep.
This time it was Fen who looked helpless. There are ghosts and ghosts all around, and wandering monsters have evil intentions. They dragged their heavy steps towards the two strangers.
After shooting casually, Fen realized that in this mist, his accuracy was not as accurate as in the outside world. What's the reason? Also, what did the sleeping man find?
Thinking of this, she suddenly became excited.
At the magic tower in the dreamland, a not-so-fierce battle was going on. A tentacle monster without a body danced its octopus-like limbs and attacked the magic tower. The star-like points of light in the deep sky had just fired a salvo, and now they looked much dimmer. However, a volley of fire was not enough to defeat these invading monsters, so the two avatars guarding here were wielding weapons against the monsters.
Because the opponent resembles a mollusk, with tough and elastic skin that is not suitable for heavy-hitting weapons, the two avatars are cutting the octopus tentacles with oversized sashimi knives. As soon as he entered the dreamland, he descended from the sky. When he saw the battle below, he immediately formed a large net to cover the invading tentacle monster.
The fighting pauses.
Surrounded by the struggling tentacle monster, the second incarnation stretched out his hand to push up his glasses as usual and said, "Aren't you going to kill him? If another one comes in, it won't be easy to deal with."
"It's not easy to deal with, but it's still manageable. Are these the things you encounter outside?" asked the original body who had just arrived.
"should be."
"Then it is necessary to keep one for experimentation. If a new one comes in, just pick one and kill it."
"Why does this remind me that when we were playing online games, we sat down in a place in the maze that we thought was safe to return to the devil. After returning from the poop, we fell down. Are you sure it's okay?" The fat man in front of him said The otaku incarnation complained about his behavior without hesitation.
"When you don't speak, the world is bright and your mood is beautiful. But as soon as you speak, the world turns upside down and the sun and the moon eclipse. It only makes people feel that people's hearts are sinister, but I feel dizzy and can't stand even when I hear it. It's unstable. Are you sure you're not an undercover agent sent by the enemy?"
"Enemy? Who? Tentacle monster? If those bosses are willing to accept you as their younger brother, will you kneel down and lick them?"
I X! This temptation is really hard to resist. Holding a thick thigh is actually someone's ambition in life. If you can hold a thick thigh of that level, being a licking dog is really nothing.
"I'm so embarrassed! Look at your face, let's have a dream. Why don't you pee and take a picture of yourself?" Fei Zhai came to the other two selves incarnate and asked: "Let's not talk about that. Do you think your idea is feasible? ?”
"Having never tried it, who can be sure whether it is feasible or not." After Lin finished speaking, a change of thought occurred, and all three people present changed into pink burqas and wore a single pink horn ornament on their heads. He said: "No need to talk nonsense, we must have the spirit of doing practical things. Whether it is a male or a female, you will know after trying it. Everyone, use three times the efficiency, go for it!"
Maybe it was Fei Zhai's words that made someone worry about the situation in the outside world. Plus, I know what I want to do and have a clear goal, so I don’t want to waste too much time on it. As for this old joke from forty years ago, regarding the metaphysics of programming, we can only say that faith is justice!
