Dimensional Thinking.

Losing the ability to manipulate dimensions of images in the mind.

When humans first evolved into their present form, they found that if they could represent three dimensions in two dimensions it was a great boon to their survival. Thus those who had this ability represent space in their minds were more  themselves in a vicious, nasty world, where eternal vigilence ment the difference between a short life and a long one. Every sense was a cannel of precious information that could save those early human lives. By comparison with this savage world of the past, the modern world, and especially the western world of the child, is very safe. Because of this safety children gradually learn that they do not need to be very vigilent, and they they do not really nead to finely discriminate between various minute changes in their environment. Thus they do not need to pay close attention to their sensory intake unless there is a large obvious change. It follows then, that because children no longer need fine discrimination to survive, most of them tend to gradually lose these incredable abilities in all their senses. 

Dimensional thinking is the facility that enables people to hold in their minds a shape in three or more dimensions. It is the ability to imagine the top, bottom, sides, front and back of something simultaneously. It is the ability to imagine something opened up, unfolded or sliced through. It is the ability to imagine something distorted by pressures of stretching, squashing and twisting or morphing into something else. It is an awareness of how things will change and how they will look when changed. It is the ability to understand how elements within an object or concept may interact with each other. 

Geniuses are often adept in using this facility in the worlds of science, invention and various kinds of three dimensional creativity such as sculpture. When humans first evolved into their present form, they found themselves in a vicious, nasty world, where eternal vigilence ment the difference between a short life and a long one. Every sense was a cannel of precious information that could save those early human lives. By comparison with this savage world of the past, the modern world, and especially the western world of the child, is very safe. Because of this safety children gradually learn that they do not need to be very vigilent, and they they do not really nead to finely discriminate between various minute changes in their environment. Thus they do not need to pay close attention to their sensory intake unless there is a large obvious change. It follows then, that because children no longer need fine discrimination to survive, most of them tend to gradually lose these incredable abilities in all their senses.

John