What are those indescribable beings in the Cthulhu Mythology? In order to maintain their sense of mystery and terror, the creators usually do not explain them, but just use some frightening rhetoric to pile them up, so that readers can escape from the feeling of powerlessness.
To feel those existences. But the commonly used words and phrases are nothing more than being unable to see directly, unable to understand, etc.
In addition, when many creators describe "gods" more rationally, they will use a term, that is, "high-dimensional creatures". The same term is also very common in many science fiction works. It is usually accompanied by some "
"Can't understand" or something like that.
Let’s not talk about how these high-dimensional creatures appear in the real world of three-dimensional space. If their images are seen by others, what kind of reaction will there be?
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
It can be counted to the next hundred, two hundred, or even a thousand steps. Simply put, it is the kind of 'incomprehensibility' between ordinary people and geniuses.
But in fact, facing the "incomprehensibility" of high-dimensional creatures should be a more dangerous situation. It is not just that they cannot understand or understand, but that even the brain cannot process the received information.
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 appearance in cognition. So the world in the eyes of color blind people, the world in the eyes of cats and dogs, the world in the eyes of insects with compound eyes,
They are all different from the world that ordinary people see.
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.
, interfere with brain processing processes.
So what will happen when the brain encounters a large amount of information that it cannot process? If you can't imagine what will happen to the brain, you can take a look at what will happen to the computer's processor when faced with this problem. No
Except for crashes, overloads, overheating and burnout, etc. The brain is actually similar.
Although the human body has a self-protection mechanism, it is only below a certain limit. When it exceeds that limit, what should be done will be what it is. Then when the brain is overwhelmed by a large amount of information that cannot be processed, and the human physiological condition is affected by the brain
If it is controlled, what will happen when this harm is reflected on 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 show 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 the 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 they believe that something exists, and the more images they give it, the more clearly they can see these existences. This is
It not only explains the so-called gods in belief, but also explains those indescribable things, including ghosts, souls and other things that are difficult to explain by science.
If you don’t understand it 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 ghosts appear, they treat them as invisible.
Each other. When you can ignore ghosts, you will really not be able to see each other.
But doing this does not mean understanding high-dimensional creatures. It is 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 are in can be processed by the brain, and it naturally belongs to the category that can be understood; then the world above the dimension you are in
Will our world be forever incomprehensible due to innate physiological limitations?
of course not.
Human physiological limitations prevent our eyes 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 look at directly.
There will always be tools to help us observe different worlds, provided we find the right method.
So back to the question, what are dimensions?
In a simpler way, 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 there is only one line in one dimension and cannot intersect and perpendicular to other lines, the space of more than two dimensions is in
Mathematically, this principle must be followed.
In other words, the fourth dimension above three dimensions is not the 'time' that ordinary people recognize, but the fourth axis that is perpendicular to the first three axes. This is also 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 equations. However, graphs 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 a mathematical dimensionality reduction method be designed to artificially screen or combine information in 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.
To put it simply, what that science is doing is the collection of data, the organization of data, and the presentation of data. On Earth, these actions are processed by data scientists with the help of computers and programs, hundreds or even thousands.
Hundreds of millions, 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 spaces above three dimensions, we naturally
It is impossible to process this aspect of data. So it is stuck at this stage, and naturally the final data presentation results will not be obtained.
But, that was on Earth. But what about in Lost Land? What would it be like in this world on the magic side?
After thinking about this, someone had an answer in his mind. He stopped the former Demon King who was advancing. Looking at the puzzled expression on that delicate and beautiful face, Lin Wubi said seriously: "Stop for a moment and help me.
Protect the Dharma."
"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'm about to enter a dream, please help me stay around to protect my safety."
"Now?"
"Yes. If what I want to do can be accomplished, it will be helpful for our trip. It shouldn't take too much time, because I already have a general direction." After finishing speaking, Lin lowered his head before agreeing.
Then he fell asleep.
Now it was Fen who looked helpless. There were ghosts and ghosts all around, and monsters wandering around had malicious 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 was the reason for this? And, 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. Star-like light spots in the deep sky had just completed a round of fighting.
The shooting now looks much dimmer. However, a single salvo is not enough to defeat these invading monsters, so the two avatars guarding here are wielding weapons to fight against the monsters.
Because the opponent resembles a mollusc, with tough and elastic skin, not suitable for heavy-hitting weapons, the two avatars are using super-large sashimi knives to cut the octopus tentacles. As soon as the main body entered the dream, it fell from the sky and saw the octopus below.
The battle immediately turned into a large net, which first covered the invading tentacle monsters.
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 it? 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 we came back from the poop, we fell down. Are you sure it's okay?" The fat man in front of him said
The incarnation of a nerd, he 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 moon eclipse. It only makes people feel that people's hearts are sinister, but I feel dizzy 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! It’s really hard to refuse this kind of temptation. Having a thick thigh is actually someone’s ambition in life. If you can hold that level of thick thighs, being a licking dog is really nothing.
"I'm so embarrassed! Look at your face, you're dreaming. 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 the 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 Fatty's words that made someone worry about the situation in the outside world. In addition, he knew what he wanted to do and had a clear goal, so he didn't want to waste too much time on it. And this old joke from forty years ago was very concerned about programming.
In terms of metaphysics, we can only say that faith is justice!