• Wade@lemmy.world
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      Yeah I suppose they would need another eye for each additional dimension they see, which still justifies the reaction in the comic

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        Not really, they’d just need to exist in a dimension above ours. We can readily observe the lower three dimensions of length, width and depth because we exist in the one above that - duration. We can’t observe time except by passing through it point by point. A being capable of observing actual timelines would have to do so from a vantage point above them.

        The extra eyes and wings are just them being a fucking showoff.

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          You need one eye to see 2D. You need two eyes to see 3D. Presumably, you need 3+ eyes to see in 4D. Don’t conflate spatial dimensions with the temporal one, it’s oranges and apples.

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            Most of the “3D” we see is made up by our brains. For evidence of this, look at a photograph, and look at how far away things are.

            Having eyes spaced apart does help us to tell the distance to things that are close to us, but that is only useful for a short distance. Our brains also track the parallax and occlusion of numerous objects, which helps over longer distances, but works just fine with 1 eye.

            I think there are two ways eyes could work in higher spacial dimensions, you could either have an n dimensional eye, which percieves an n-1 dimensional image, and then an understanding of “distance” is used to fill in the remaining information, or (which may just be my own 3D-ness showing) you could have several 3D eyes in different directions, each percieving different 2D images, with enough overlap to fully see the n-dimensional space. That would take n-1 eyes to properly see.

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            You can see depth with a single eye, you just need to move your eye

            Two eyes in animals are used either to get extra view angle (in a cow, for instance) or to give instant depth information (in a human or tiger for example) or for both (in dragonflies)

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              That’s still using a temporal dimension to your advantage :P (cause without time you can’t move).

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            You can get depth information from parallax, which can come from either capturing multiple moments or using multiple viewpoints. IDK if I would call this seeing in 3D, as you can still only see 2d surfaces, just with an additional data point of depth (Think of it like an array of data, with one eye, you get res^2 * (r+g+b) data points, with two, you get res^2 * (r+g+b+r+g+b+d) instead of actual 3D which would be res^3 * (r+g+b)). Having 3 eyes just means you can estimate depth more accurately. Of course, in real animals with many eyes the eyes serve different purposes, such as having a different fov, resolution, color perception, etc.

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        Or it’s like with tails in asia: the more tails, the more cat/fox/….

        The more wings and eyes, the more angel.

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      Like some sort of acid trip,
      “I can see imaginary numbers!”
      being somewhat like
      “I can taste colors!”

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    realization that it’s like a toddler’s story….
    “yeah, it had like… millions of eyes and wings!”

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      Or maybe a desert villager named Ezekiel with literally zero education and world experiences who was high on drugs saw a peacock which likely escaped from a local traveling merchant cage because those animals come from a fucking jungle, and the idiot couldn’t explain what he saw and just attributed it to an angel because he and his religious buddies are all fucking stupid.

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      And the walls were made of a mile thick of gold, and the gates were made of diamond, and, and, and then they started eating the scrolls…

      Yep, definitely happened and wasn’t the product of funny mushrooms. /s

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      Well yeah, because it’s made for people with the brain capacity of toddlers.

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    Turns out we were the predators. They say “be not afraid” because they actually want to talk to that person, not frighten them away from a tasty meal.

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      What? Does this make sense or am I unwell?

      Why would the angel say “be not afraid” because he wants the predator to chill out and…eat them? Are angels piloted by suicidal, parasitic organisms forcing them to be eaten in order for the predator to spread more parasites?

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        because they actually want to talk to that person

        Perhaps you missed part of my comment.

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            I think the last 4 words of the top comment are throwing us off.

            Here’s my best recounting:

            Angels have eye spots to avoid becoming a tasty meal for a human. When an angel meets a human, the angel’s eye spots will scare the human, causing them to flee. In order to talk to a human, it was necessary for the angel to reassure them, “be not afraid”.

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              Yes, often it requires taking in an entire comment, and not just the final part to understand it.

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                The first half of your comment made sense in isolation. The second half also made sense in isolation. It was the whole thing put together that didn’t make sense.

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    Or maybe the biblically accurate angels all have really good eye spots as well that we just assumed were eyes and they are trying to scare off something even worse.

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    Well you know what they say, god’s all seeing.

    So if you want to slip out and really get crazy with those Canaanites you got to be able to cover your 6, and your 180, and your 278, might as well also cover your 112 too.