>>12732205This anon gets it. He's describing the 4th dimension.
Imagine a perfect 2-D universe. Long and wide, but infinitely flat. Then you have little creatures living inside it. They can flow around like bacteria in a petri dish. Perhaps they have "eyes" and can see each others, but only the surface of their skin -- meaning, the outermost of the outline of their body (the "cellular membrane"). Now, if you bring this 2-D universe into our 3-D universe, we can look at it like a sheet of paper. We can bend it, roll it, lay it out flat. But the 2-D universe never changes. It's like living ink on an infinitely thin sheet of paper.
Now the interesting part is when you can take a bunch of these 2-D universes and lay them on top of each other. Let's say you have an infinite amount of 2-D universes. Truly unlimited. Then you stack and put them in "ABC order", from black to white. Each universe that is most like the others will be laid right on top of each other... like a flip book. The nearest universes are now neighbors, like stacked sheets of paper. Really like a flip book.
And here is the mystery... consciousness. The ability we have to be aware of ourselves, to doubt, to know our own existence and death. We know we are here. Animals, plants, etc do not. The idea is that our consciousness is like a beam of light that shines on one sheet of universe at a time, looking for some sort of solution to a cosmic problem. If one of the sheets in the stack of universes becomes less interesting, the consciousness moves to the next universe. This is when humans make "decisions" using their conscious thought, rather than impulsive instinct like animals.
We are a 3-D universe, printed on a 3-D sheet of paper, in a huge stack, infinity high, and alphabatized from "light to dark", sitting in a 4-D universe where consciousness is beaming light across the stack -- and this beam of consciousness seems to be choosing whatever is most interesting or pleasurable.
