Simulating Biology in Other Dimensions

Something to note: in the game about chess with time travel there's an strategy called the Terminator Gambit, in wich you basically check-mate the opponents king in the first turn of the original timeline, basically neutralizing every single timelinge

the concept of 5th dimension organisms trying to out smart each other through several time lines sounds like the most fun and brain hurting concept I have ever heard

Nice video, Im the guy who made particle life 4D. Really didnt expect to get mention in here, well anyways thanks.

-"Hiper-spiders , their bodies extend into the 4th dimension and are considerable larger than we can fathom" CONFUSED ARACNOPHOBE SCREAMING

There is a quite common thinking error, in regards to 2d beings, people assume they view world in a top down way, like if we were to look at a paper drawing, but in reality they would only be able to see in 1d, just a line, in example you showed at 5:02, the 2d organism wouldn't know there is a blue sphere to begin with, all it would see is a green line and it would need to cut through it to see there's something inside or it would need to use sound, kind of like how we can tell something is empty inside by knocking on it and listening. Great video overall, but I never saw anyone explain properly how 2d beings see.

"4D predators" may be one of the most terrifying concepts ever. :O

4:36 4D beings playing Dungeons and Dragons with a 600 sided die DM: Roll for damage PC: Hell yes! Nat600 DM: Well done! Your weapon initially miss the boss but it did hit one of his ancestors, changing the course of history entirely and preventing him from being born. Congrats!

10:35 While I don't think the Heptapods can alter time, they do seem to be able to bend spacetime to travel great distances and altre/defy/manufacture gravity (which is just bent space-time), so I'd say that their ability to perceive time in a non-linear fashion has aided in their development of technology and likely made space travel a lot easier for them. Who knows, they could be way less advanced than us from an evolutionary standpoint, the Heptapod version of cavemen, with rock ships that travel just as easily through space-time as we do through 3d space. I love this concept!

It's really amazing to think about that. I want to mention Flatland, a romance published in late 19th century. Spoilers for a book in public domain, but one of the best parts of the book is when the paralelogram protagonist (I don't remember much if it was a paralelogram or a square) is brought by a sphere to the 3rd dimension and gets euphoric, but then the sphere says "if that is so, then even the worst scoundrels of our world are gods to yours", and the novel ends with sphere wondering if there are indeed higher dimensions. I feel it's the ancestors of the ideas in the video.

Diggin that intro. It’s one of my greatest dreams to see someone create an in-depth simulation of a generated ecosystem. Like a fully realized version of Spore. That would be the greatest game/simulation EVER.

I feel like most people are unimaginative to the dimensions of time, the way we understand it currently is already fluid, and there’s a lot more you can add onto it I personally like the idea of alternate infinity’s, and time bending, and or existing in other directions

Imagine if a evil 4D creature decided to push you maybe a single meter in the 4th axis. As a 3D creature, similar to 2D creatures, you cannot understand, see or travel through a dimension above you, so by just moving 1 meter you’re in a new unescapable world that you cannot get off of without help of a hyper-being to get you back to your 4th axis coordinate. Another scary thing is: if you put a 2D creature in the 3D world, it will probably fall in a direction that it cannot see, and lay down on the floor in a way it cannot understand or get up from, so if we were dragged to the 4th dimension, we’d probably just fall over. Now for a third scary thing: 2D creatures don’t have anything stopping it’s insides from falling to the sides, because it can’t encase itself in a 3D way because it only exists in a 2D world, so a 2D creature’s insides would just slip out in a 3D world. In the same way, we don’t have 4D encasing, so our insides could just slip and hang out off of a direction we can’t see. So, we wouldn’t be able to go back, we would fall over and het stuck and our insides would be exposed from a angle we can’t see to possibly be entered by 4D hyper-insects/pests

"Now that nobody's confused, let's talk about time travel!" Ah yes, the least confusing concept to wrap one's head around.

I've never considered that the 4th dimension is basically the displacement of empty space, fascinating. This implies all matter exists in constant contact with each other and the universe we see is shaped by those holes between them, like bubbles.

9:44 “a WaTeR dInOsAuR”

1:20 If we are talking about true 2D then 2D creatures can see only outline, not inside.

The Tralfamadorians from Slaughterhouse 5 also experience time all at once and have a style of life called fatalism The protagonist from the story also starts experiencing time as they do which is a strangely interesting way to explain PTSD. It's a good book, I'd recommend it :)

You should've at least mentioned A.Dewdney's book The Planiverse in the 2D section. It goes into real depth into how a 2D organism would be built and function, as well as into 2D physics, tectonics, ecology, and even engineering decisions a 2D civilization would realistically implement to go around a flat universe's limitations. It's really brilliant.

Dawg literally called me out at 4:55. I was gettin so comfortable and his voice was so soothing that I was dozing off. Man must really be able to see in 4D, cuz how’d he manage to say “wake up guys” right when I fell asleep 😂

2:14 yeah. advanced simulation mhm