Think about it.
It couldn't have a digestive tract!
It couldn't have a digestive tract!
A Two Dimensional Creature Cannot Exsist
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I suggest you read Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott. He makes it seem possible in that novella.
^He might also look into Hologram theory, which makes some interesting postulations about our own dimensionality.
Why do you say it couldn't have a digestive tract? There are three dimentional creatures that essentially have a two-way digestive system where waste goes out the same hole food goes in. That is, of course, assuming theoretical two dimensional creatures even need a digestive tract.
i don't think the digestive tract is the problem here. Isn't the problem that if it has length and width, but no depth, it doesn't actually exist? Having a VERY SMALL 3rd dimension is one thing, but if it's 2D, it doesn't exist at all when viewed from one angle.
Am i missing something?
Am i missing something?
The fact that we as three dimensional beings cannot percieve or have any
frame of reference for a two dimensional world or point of view.
They can and probably do exist, we just literaly... can't imagine it.
I don't think so. Two dimensional creatures? I'm not sensing anything. Wait, I'm not sensing anything. Anything at all! What's going on here?!?
Exactly lol
I'd argue that we ARE fourth dimensional creatures -that anything that exists is one- since the fourth dimension is time and we all live, exist in, and move through time.
And I don't see how lacking an existence in time would preclude one's ability to have a digestive tract.
I'd argue that we ARE fourth dimensional creatures -that anything that exists is one- since the fourth dimension is time and we all live, exist in, and move through time.
And I don't see how lacking an existence in time would preclude one's ability to have a digestive tract.
No, no... Four spatial dimensions. Hyper-creatures.
All I remember was when that Sphere visited, and the Square's wife thought he must have another Woman (line) in the house.
And the bit about the creature in Pointland who was convinced he was God since nothing else existed in his universe.
If a two-dimensional creature had a digestive tract, it wouldn't be two-dimensional for long.
Flatland was one of the books I had to study in grade 11 which was more than 30 years ago. I don't think I have read it since then.
^^^ That's payback for that time that you beat with that joke about that thing in that topic about that subject.
Not quite Wrath of Khan level revenge, though.
I tried to chase you 'round Perdition's Flames but I got a ticket.
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