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From: kirby urner <kirby.urner@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Jun 28, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: 4D Cognition.
To: [redacted]
Howdy all —
Kirby here, in Portland, Oregon, and potentially on tap to share about “Dimension” in Synergetics.
My materials are likely somewhat apropos whenever the talk turns to ‘4D’ and its role in past, present and projected lineage-bound communications, if only for disambiguation purposes.
A gist of my talk might be:
1. Namespaces
I could start with the late Dr. Donald Coxeter (to whom Bucky Fuller dedicated his Synergetics) the author of Regular Polytopes, and point to his discussion on pg. 119 (Dover Edition) wherein he’s at pains to point out that his idea of a “fourth dimension” is quite distinct from Einstein’s notion of 3D + Time:
Little, if anything, is gained by representing the fourth Euclidean dimension as time. In fact, this idea, so attractively developed by H.G. Wells in The Time Machine, has led such authors as J. W. Dunne (An Experiment with Time) into a serious misconception of the theory of Relativity. Minkowski’s geometry of space-time is not…
