Cybernetics of Epistemology - Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition - page 236

a b

FIGURE 2. (Fig. 2a): Geodetic coordinates of the proprietary system of coordinates,
x , of an organism at rest, imbedded in its environment with Euclidian metric.
(Fig. 2b): Geodesics (circles, radii) of the proprietary coordinate system with respect
to the representative body sphere embedded in an environment with non-Euclid-
ean metric corresponding to the organism at rest (Fig. 2a).

different form, the Eigen-value problem resurfaces, which I had mentioned
earlier and about which I will talk again later.
At present we are attempting to establish in experiments, once and for
all, the proposition that the motorium provides the interpretation for the
sensorium and that the sensorium provides the interpretation for the
motorium.
There are extremely interesting experiments with infants in which one
can show that gaining perceptual multitude is directly correlated to the
manipulation of certain suited objects, 9,10,11 but unfortunately one cannot
talk to infants, or, more correctly, one can talk to them, but one does not
understand their answers. With adults there is the problem that the sensory
motor system is already so well integrated that it is very hard to separate
what was learned earlier and is now carried over into the experimental
situation from what is assimilated as “new” during the experiment, unless
one goes into a completely “new dimension,” the access to which remains
principally closed to our earlier experiences.
This dimension would, for instance, be the fourth spacial dimension. All
of us, sooner or later in our lives, have had the bitter experience that it is
extremely difficult, perhaps impossible, to squeeze oneself into the fourth