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199 - Math Without Numbers - Milo Beckman

You Are Not So Smart

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The Importance of Prescience

"I believe that a fourth dimension exists, of course it does," he says. "There's no reason to assume there isn't the possibility of something we would consider an intelligent being being able to conceive of dimensions and other ideas or abstractions" He finds comfort in the idea that what happens in math is like you're saying using pen and paper like a telescope to get just the shadowy notion of like, oh, there is knowledge beyond knowledge.

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