Speaking of Hinton, his family background is also quite distinctive, which fully conforms to the label of "mysterious four dimensions". Hinton's father, Jeames Hinton, was originally a famous surgeon, but later became a cult leader who advocated "free love" and "polygamy". He declared that Jesus is the savior of men and himself is the savior of women. Hinton himself is a rigorous mathematician, and his father-in-law george boole is the pioneer of the famous Boolean algebra. In Hinton, there seems to be both mysticism and rigorous rationality. The two labels of "mystery" and "preciseness" are very consistent with the characteristics of "four-dimensional space".
? We tell the creatures in one-dimensional space that there is a concept of plane, which they can't accept, because the creatures in one-dimensional space can only move forward and backward. We tell creatures in two-dimensional space that there is such a thing as volume, and they simply can't understand it, because creatures in two-dimensional space can only appreciate the area, but they can't appreciate the volume. Then we are three-dimensional beings, and we naturally look at the volume very big, but we can't understand the concept of four dimensions.
? ? So we exist in three dimensions. What is the concept of four dimensions? That is to say, space will change with time and be recorded one by one, which is beyond our understanding, so low-dimensional life cannot understand the thinking mode of high-dimensional life. We often say that we should live in the present. What does this mean? In other words, in our three-dimensional life, we can't understand the concept of time axis, so we can only know what we have done now and what we have done in the past. We can't change it, and we can't predict what will happen in the future.