Cybernetics of Epistemology - Understanding Understanding: Essays on Cybernetics and Cognition - page 237

a b

FIGURE 3. (Fig. 3a): Geodetic coordinates of the proprietary system of coordinates,
x, of an organism in motion, imbedded in its environment with Euclidian metric.
(Fig. 3b): Geodesics (circles, radii) of the proprietary coordinate system with respect
to the representative body sphere embedded in an environment with non-
Euclidean metric corresponding to the organism in motion (Fig. 3a).

dimension. However, every point of our three-dimensional space is an
open door to the entry into the fourth dimension, but no matter how much
we stretch and twist, we remain stuck in the all-too-well-known three
dimensions.
At the Biological Computer Lab, we, therefore, asked ourselves: would
the principle of the origins of knowledge acquisition, as mutuality of
“Gnosis” and “Episteme,” of Sensorium and Motorium, not gain immensely
in plausibility once we are able to show that the fourth dimension becomes
much more perceivable if it can also be grasped , which means that we can
touch and handle four-dimensional objects? 12-13
Thanks to the friendly computers (which do not know of any dimen-
sionality) this can be carried out by giving to a test person manipulators
which are on line with a fast computer. According to the position of the
manipulators, the computer will compute two related two-dimensional
projections of a four-dimensional body on the screen of a picture tube
which—viewed by a person through a stereoscope—will be seen as three-
dimensional projections of this body floating in space.