🧵 Engineering 2d animals to test 3d space

AIFag !Gy8L8Ggb7w at Tue, 19 Mar 2024 16:36:47 UTC No. 16086688

to test the hypothesis that 3d space is a construction of the mind, we can engineer a microsopic animals that live in a 2d environment, potentially nanometer in height. the animals will only be able to travel in artificial 2d directions. after a fuck ton of generations, maybe keep the experiment running for decades or centuries, we remove the animals from the 2d environment and put them in a 3d space where getting food requires navigating in the 3rd extra dimension. if the animals still can navigate the 3rd dimension properly, it's possible that 3d dimension is somehow hardcoded into the neurostructure of all animals and 3d space is fundamental structure of the universe, not a representation.