Hidden dimensions?

Beginning to watch "Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace" on YT (one of the sessions from World Science Fair) and wonder what I would look like if I could perceive myself in all those dimensions, plus, of course, the three-four dimensions that I do perceive myself in. Perhaps even to use the verb "look" is inappropriate. Actually, I should ask myself "what I am like" if I accept the proposition/theory of more than 3-4 dimensions, as it is the question of being not of "looking like."

But then, if indeed there are more than 3-4 dimensions to my being, how can I access those other dimensions of myself? Maybe I am all the time. Actually, I believe I am, but am not aware of it. Maybe that's where the consciousness comes to play.

Let's see what I can learn from, or be inspired by, this video.

"Nothing"

I  just began watching a YT clip of the discussion about "nothing" and a crazy thought occurred to me. Perhaps that nothing is simply a thing with none of the known dimensions (length, width, etc.) or which has a "zero" value for all the known-to-us dimensions. Perhaps in other dimensions, which are inaccessible to us due to the limitations of our perceptory apparatus, it is not "nothing" and is thus perceptible to creatures that can sense those other dimensions. I find this thought interesting to ponder. What do you think?

Sam Harris - Death and the Present Moment

Just heard an interesting (YT clip of the) presentation by Sam Harris titled "Death and the Present Moment" and posted two comments.

"A questioner at around 51:00  mentioned "a right to live." I do not believe there is such a thing outside of human-made picture of life. So, if that is true, if the right to live is a human construct, than it is not a fact, but an unprovable proposition that some accept as the truth and some don't. It may be of some use in certain circumstances, but the "nature" does not honor it."

"Mourning someone's death is really feeling the loss of something we really do not have -- that someone's future impact on our lives. The fallacy hidden in this state of mind is the expectation that the future moment will be the same as some past moment that we enjoyed. It never is and never will be. Everything always changes. That is the wonder of life. Expectations are crutches that our mind sets up. They many times help us along in our daily lives and many other times make us feel miserable. If we accept that the next moment, and all that it may or may not contain, is not guaranteed and accept that if it comes it will not be completely the way we expect it to be and are consequently ready to accept the consequences, we are free of the burden of needing the expectation to come true as the basis for happiness or fulfillment of some sort or actually of the existence itself."

Those sorts of presentations, regardless of the degree to which I concur with their premisses, analyses, and conclusions, always inspire me to study more. Douglass Hofstadter's "Gödel, Escher, and Bach" did that for me many years ago when I first read it. I might look YT Hofstadter's clips next.

This delicate life

Very few of us, I believe, think about or are even aware of how delicately balanced our life is physiologically. There are enumerable dangerous events that could happen at any time, even without a warning and/or our ability to control, ending our life individually, or as a species or in totality--all life on Earth.

Why would this be of any interest? It is of interest to me, the fact of vulnerability of life, as I think about life's purpose. Most of those whom I know and/or whose thoughts I learn about, propose some sort of ongoing concern, as in "we live today so that there may be life tomorrow." I have always had a problem with that position for the simple reason that the life can be ended as mentioned above. Moreover, I assert that life in general, that of which we are a part, will end some day.

Given that conclusion, purpose of life can not be some future life. The purpose must be contained within the current life. What could it be?

Adding to what I wrote in an earlier blog entry, my purpose is to fully experience life itself.