Saturday, April 10, 2010

Guinea Pig Bowels Compacted



Today we talk of Chapter 32, entitled, of course, no accident, "Flatland." I imagine that this word is unknown to many, but for those that have this not be as well known offer two words of explanation.
"Flatland" is the title of a book written by Edwin Abbott Abbott, back in 1884 (see link ). The story follows the life of a square within a two-dimensional world (ie "flat"), governed by precise rules, absolutely 2D. But one day a ball from the third dimension, but on the poor that there is much more square beyond its limited capacity for perception.
The work has two souls, in fact intimately related, a mathematics teacher, and a satirical denunciation of contemporary society divided into rigid compartments too "social". What all this with central
Chapter 32 of my book?
This chapter is an important element of the entire series of Tomotomopoppin. Since the volume 0, and then in 1 and 2.1 on several occasions in this, various people say various things about the world of dreams. The philosopher Plato, the gnome Burgoprofondo of the cat Cesshire ... all have very different theories about what is "reality" and dream.
Each character has his idea of \u200b\u200ba dream world, dictated by his own culture, or, ultimately, its openness, its concept, more or less restricted to reality and thought (see for example Gubbley in the gnome volume 0, who lives in a very restricted society, not only "physically" but also mentally and culturally, where they can not even distinguish a human from a monkey wrench, and while living in the mountain of his dreams have no idea what is!).
So, what is this Tomotomopoppin, as he called Alice? It 'an alternate universe? E 'wonderland? It 's a place where dreams are real?
Now at last the grandmother explains what is really beginning to end this Tomotomopoppin: and example, which uses the simile to explain to his audience made up of fools is made just from Flatland. That is the way humans perceive the reality is that compared to two-dimensional world as narrated in the book: men see only a part of reality, namely that their perception of "2D" allows them to see. But the reality is obviously at least three dimensions, or 4 or 5 ... Tomotomopoppin then, the dream world, there is an alternative world out of our world, is the real world, as it , but not perceived in its entirety by the individual human being.
A person sees only the material and physical reality, because only this can feel, dream, fantasy and so on. are not inventions, as they exist as much as the things you can touch, but placed in a "substantially" different, higher, so thin and fine (in terms of quality) that is not perceptible by our senses. Only when the dream, that when we sleep, you may lose part of that mental rigidity, of the "veil" obscuring the harsh ways, allowing us to see a part of that world ... this is called a "dream world" and "dream" that use the power of the wizards and the Seven Serpents ... common experience because it is visible only within the confines of the dream.
But it's not a dream, a condition of the human mind.
why Alice is not calling itself a dream world, seeing how this definition is imperfect, but did not find a better one that would express a concept so vast, so here it is resolved for the absurd "Tomotomopoppin!

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