What If We Were …

We tend to think in: Either or. Left, right. Yes, no. This, that. Black, white. Senate, House of Representatives. Pres, Vice pres.

I claim this is because we are bisymmetrical: 2 eyes, 2 ears, 2 arms and hands. 2 legs and feet. We are genetically programmed to think this way. This is our World View. Looking down from above at a person geometrically, consider we are basically a square or a rectangle with arms and legs sticking out.

What if we were … trisymmetrical? Looking down we would see a triangle with 3 arms and hands and 3 legs and feet sticking out. So we would have 3 eyes and 3 ears. Wouldn’t this change our World View?

So how would we think of things?

73 comments November 5th, 2008