Dimensio

Chapter 1: The Article

An article from "The Great Scientific Journal" (widely trashed and dismissed by numerous respectable scientists, #2 in the" Worst Weeklies of the Decade" by Pitchfork, and #4 in "Worst Magazines of All Time" by Rolling Stone)

DIMENSIO

All humans are born with an innate sense to perceive dimensions. The perception of these dimensions is one of the purest human characteristics, and also one which is not learnt by us. 

A newborn baby, who does not possess the knowledge of language, is nothing more than a being trapped inside a bubble. Yet, the baby is the freest being on the earth; for the ignorance of language facilitates him to perceive the world as he is supposed to perceive it, rather than base it on biases taught by others.

For instance, the baby knows that his favourite toy is red -- bright, bright red unlike the other toy which his mother bought him, a bleak shade of blue. He also knows that his favorite toy is easier to pick from the floor, easier to carry around, and fits into his tiny palms quite nicely. Unlike the blue monster which needs Herculean force to pick up and carry around, and which his small hands find difficult to carry. Words wreck the purity of the experience.

However, the one bane that comes along with the blissful ignorance about language is the failure to convey and perceive other thoughts on their perception of the world around them. If thought deeply, language does not solve this problem either -- since humans learn language from people around them, and thus its biases get transferred to the human. I am not hesitant to say language is one of the poorest means of communication.

The ineptitude of language, which shall be expounded further, poses a question: what if the sense to perceive dimension varies from being to being, and we are unable to realise it because we lack a strong means of communication?

This idea is well expressed in one popular and intelligible question, delivered many a time with the same heaviness as an existential one: "How do you know your red is my red?"

For the uninitiated, envision this: you are a totally colour blind person and have never seen any colour in your life. Thanks to the immense development of technology in modern world, you get to buy a spectacle that facilitates you to see colours as a normal person. But thanks to the utter lethargy and incompetence of the one who made the spectacle, it has one defect: it shows you red as green and green as red.

Now, your friend takes you on a tour outside in order to teach you the names of colours. You come across a tree -- what you see is bright red, and your friend points it and tells "This is green." Next, you come across a lamppost. You see it as green, but your friend says "This is red." In order to test you, your friend shows you a cabbage which appears to you red, and ask what is it called. You, who think that red is green, say "This is green!" "Good," your friend replies. And then he shows a a tomato, fully ripe but to you a raw one, and asks what the colour is called. You say "Red!" and he says "Good."

Despite the perception of your colour being utterly different to that of your friend, and any other person around -- you probably would never have an argument over if something is red or green. Nothing showcases the failure of language as a communication system better than this example.

The sense of perception of dimensions with which humans are born, I call it "Dimensio" (the Latin word which was the root of dimension). Dimensio can differ from human to human, but we are unable to realise it, due to the incapability of languages.

The colour example can be expanded to other areas as well. How do you know your big, is my big? We judge sizes on a relative basis; so if one says that "This table is bigger than that," I would agree, even though his perception of the bigger table might actually be tinier than mine. Even though humans have developed the scale in order to have an "objective" view of size, it still does not solve the problem. There might be a possibility that if I happen to enter your sense of perception along with the memories of mine, I might actually perceive the whole world smaller than I did.

 In order to fathom if the dimensio of every human being is different, we need to develop a better communication system than the bleak one we are using presently. The question becomes more relevant and credible when we realise how narrow and ineffectual our senses are -- that our eyes are capable of detecting only a thin stripe in the spectrum, our ears only a tiny range, and our mind finds the idea of any higher dimensions than three existing absurd. 

In fact, the inability of compiling all kinds of perception is one of the reasons why humans have yet not comprehended the truth of universe. Such is an immensely Lovecraftian and nihilistic worldview -- but it is more sincere and truthful than the view that humans have conquered the truth with their limited amount of senses.

 Yet, if humans happen to develop the technology needed in order to communicate among themselves more effectively than languages, we would have a deeper understanding of what the world is like, if one were to compile all the experiences of dimensio of humans. And if we happen to be so fortunate, we would still be far away from comprehending the universe -- but we would be capable of taking one step ahead in the knowledge of truth, which spans to miles uncountable.

- Laura Turner.