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Old 02-13-2013, 12:47 AM   #80 (permalink)
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Again, I consider bacteria and single celled organisms to be 2d beings. You are used to thinking of dimensions in a visual way, but that's just a small part of it. Sure, bacteria exist in our 3d world, but their conscious perception of it is 2 dimensional (if it could be considered conscious perception). So you are right in that we exist in all dimensions...but our perception of it is limited to 3 of its dimensions.
Just have to voice out that I fundamentally disagree with this. Generally speaking, single cells like bacteria, unicellular algae or even sperm have length, width and height and they exist in and relate to a world which clearly has 3 dimensions. If you were smaller, it wouldn't reduce the amount of dimensions in the world, even if you were blind.

Why would the world seem 2d to a plankton or gut bacteria?
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