"This story is about complexity, advanced math, cognition, and machine computation. But hold on. For this exercise, my task is to take this complex idea and reduce it-to simplify it into something less daunting and (I hope) a bit easier to understand. So, let's take a step back. My bet is that most of us learned our first piece of geometry with two letters: x and y."
"From Lines to Planes to Lived Space Simply put, human thinking doesn't unfold along a single axis. It lives in a space shaped by multiple, intersecting dimensions. Some of these are familiar, others less so. But four, in particular, help make visible what it feels like to be a mind: We don't merely process sequences but accumulate them. Think about it-yesterday alters today, loss changes judgment, and memory reshapes emotional perspective. Experience doesn't simply inform us; it leaves a"
Human cognition unfolds in a multi-dimensional space shaped by time, identity, memory, and lived history. Thought accumulates sequential experiences into an enduring perspective that alters judgment, emotion, and meaning over time. Geometry provides a metaphor: position and orientation in cognitive space determine how experiences intersect and form identity. Large language models process ordered sequences and recognize patterns but lack an accumulating self that carries personal history and temporal continuity. Meaning for humans emerges from a life lived, where memory and loss reshape values; machines manipulate variables without inhabiting a felt, historically situated point in cognitive space.
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