Humans are, at a minimum, 5-dimensional beings

It can be jolting when you discover other people who share your views, especially when those views are exceedingly odd.

The ontological view of Reality that I developed as a philosophy undergrad, which I later attempted to roughly sketch for memory's sake here on this blog, syncs up nicely with the view of a fellow named Rob Bryanton.

I was originally introduced to Brynton's work a few years ago by a friend who thought there was a lot of similarity between our views. Brynton sketches out his views in a series of animated vlog posts, starting with the 2-part introduction I have embedded below. I was startled then, and after now going back and re-watching Brynton's videos a few years later, I am again stricken by how weird it still seems to have someone else articulate ontological views so similar to my own. (Regardless of whether these views are right, the videos are pure gold in their ability to convey the ideas in question in an understandable manner.)





My own personal view is that humans are very active in 5 dimensions: our conscious mind 'moves' through the 3 physical spatial dimensions of length, width, and depth, the time dimension, and the 'possibility space' dimension, i.e. the set of all possible paths branching off from any given 4-dimensional point at which we find ourselves (a 4-dimensional point is a point in space time designated by 3 spatial coordinates and 1 time coordinate). I think that the same way we have eyes to help us perceive and navigate through physical space, our imaginations can be thought of as sense organs that allow us to perceive and navigate through 'possibility space'.

I strongly suspect that a being's powers to sense and navigate through possibility space (i.e. the 5th dimension) are proportional to its g factor and willpower: as g increases, minds become better able to sense alternate possibilities, and as w increases, minds become better able to control which possibilities they actually travel through. So equation-wise, I would postulate that one's mobility in the 5th dimension is proportional to the product of g (for g-factor) and w (for willpower), or m=c(g*w).

Imagination lets you see; concentrated willpower lets you steer.

We can all do this to varying degrees.