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[HydrogenBond]

Sorry. Thought Dimensionality is a way to organize the output of the human mind using geometrical analogies. This is not to say that a 1-D memory is actually linear neurons within the brain, but rather 1-D memories are linear type memories or memories with a one-to-one correspondance. The model actually goes from 0-D to 4-D. I presented the range from 1-D to 2-D. The value of the model is that it is a comprehensive way to plot any type of thought processing dynamics within the human brain. It also allows one to compare various types of thought processes on a comparative scale.

The 1-D memories are linear memories with very specific meaning. Again the 1-D memories are not linear neuron arrangments, but rather a geometric analogy. The letters of an alphabet are 1-D because they are what they are. In geometry, as dimension gets higher that 1-D, it begins to take on a second dimension. I called this a curve or twist being added to linear memories. Most words in the dictionary have many meanings such that these are no longer linear, but are higher than 1-D, with respect to the thought dimension scale.

As we add more and more curvature to a line, in geometry, the line will eventually curve upon itself to form a circle. This is 1.5-D thoughts. Rather than the memory just having many defined meanings, it now includes subjective meaning, open to subjective opinion. Using the model this is analogous to a prestige affect being added to the memory. By prestige I mean a subjective enhancement, usually defined by culture. For example, If I was to pick up a rock, it would be a rock/composite of crystals, etc. If Madision Avenue decided this rock was now the latest fad, i.e, pet rock, it would gain a subjective enhancement within culture and would be now subjectively worth more than just a rock. The rock is the same, but a cultural prestige affect gives it subjective enhancement. It gets bumped from say (just to use numbers) 1.1-D to 1.79-D. This prestige effect works from 1.5-D to almost 2-D, with the higher end indicative of wider subjective appeal, i.e., larger circle of prestige.

At 2-D the prestige circle become infinite or discontinuous. This is the beginning of rational thinking. Rather than depend of cultural subjective enhancement to determine worth, or lack of worth, rational thinking creates logical ways to determine the reality of relationships. For example, if one was to say pi is the ratio of circumference to diameter and this is alway constant, one does not need subjective hype to believe this. One can use logic and math to prove it to themselves, i.e., infinite appeal because it defines a logical instead of human subjective relationship.

The range from 1-D to 1.5-D is language and trivia. The Guiness world book of records is recorded in this thought range within the brain. If one just memorizes instead of learns, they never have to leave this range.

The range from 1.5-D to 2-D, but not including 2-D is the range of human subjectivity, where prestige affects define relative worth. This range does not require the use of reason. For example, politics, religion, marketing, culturally rituals, even statistical studies, etc., are all within this range. For example, a Muslum person praying to Mecca would give this ritual a prestige thought dimension of near 2-D, but since it is less than rational and not universal, it may be close to 1.5-D to another culture who does not believe. Humans set the values from 1.5-D to 2-D and not the natural logical laws of nature.