Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: nyu notesfiles V1.1 4/1/84; site rna.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!rna!serge From: serge@rna.UUCP Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Re: Multiple Universes and Infinity Message-ID: <34400001@rna.UUCP> Date: Sun, 17-Feb-85 17:52:00 EST Article-I.D.: rna.34400001 Posted: Sun Feb 17 17:52:00 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Feb-85 02:20:27 EST References: <576@ukma.UUCP> Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #R:ukma:-57600:rna:34400001:000:953 Nf-From: rna!serge Feb 4 17:52:00 1985 I refer you to the writings of P.D. Ouspensky, a turn of the century philosopher best known for his involvement with Gurdjeef (spelling? see the film Meetings with Remarkable Men for the story of Gurdjeef's work). I have read two of his books, Tertium Organum and A New Model of the Universe. In Tertium Organum he describes the hierarchy of dimensions and it's relationship to our consiousness and perceptions. In regards your idea of a tree of events, Ouspensky speaks of this dimensionally. Specifically, an instant of what we (physical plane humans) know as time is the third dimension. A string of instants is the fourth dimension. The fifth dimension is a tree of instants. I don't recall what the sixth was. And of course, the magic number seven, was eternity or the whole ball of wax, as it were. Within this eternity, our consiousness moves experiencing those dimensions it is capable of understanding as space and those it cannot as time.