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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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

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!

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 :)

About the whole 5D chess... Couldn't that be perceived in a similar way to the saving and loading system in videogames? Every time our character dies, the game reloads to a previous save before the catastrophe happened. One could also argue every time we reload, we may or may not switch to an alternate reality where either our char managed to overcome danger, or take a different route.

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.

The book Diaspora by Greg Egan explores extra-dimensional life very well. There's a scene in the book where a human augments himself to be able to perceive and understand the six dimensional space around him and upon going back he has a panic attack because he feels like he's being smashed and limited in his normal body. This gets to the point where he just clones himself letting one copy stay in the six dimensional body and the other going back to the three dimensional existence.

Great video! Dunno if you already heard about it, but there's an amazing speculative biology visual novel called "south scrimshaw" that would fit perfectly on this channel. Right now there's only one chapter but if you're interested maybe you could cover it when more chapters are released

Hey there, curious archive, have you considered doing an updated video on Phtanum B? The project has been fleshed out massively, and would likely make for a much more interesting and meatier video that before

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

I just learned about South Scrimshaw. Didn't fully watch it because I'm made of emotions, but from what I gathered it's a really beautiful look at symbiosis and individuality in intelligent species. Would love to see an episode on it.

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 😂

The the Remembrance of Earth's Past series (AKA The Three Body Problem series) the author Liu Cixin gets into a lot of higher and lower dimensional stuff, it's pretty interesting.

I am curious if Pikmin will eventually be covered; Pikmin 4 is coming up, and with the previous three titles now all available on Switch, there is plenty of material to cover, especially since there is an in-universe bestiary.

2:14 yeah. advanced simulation mhm

That very advanced simulation look so real. It's mind boggling!

Curiosity Archive must have watched a Tibees video on two-dimensional creatures and felt inspired to make a whole documentary on multidimensional speculative biology. Incredible.

I like to call myself a dimensional fanatic, and I actually knew some of this, but thank you for making a video about one of my favourite concepts

2:25 the two holes just can't be open at the same time, but it is also a possibility to always close at least one of them.

9:44 “a WaTeR dInOsAuR”

Most likely a 2-d being would percieve a 3-d creature as a 1-d line or set of lines, that vary in shape as the being passes through the 2-d plane, not as an MRI scan (which is a 2-d image). Just as we live in a 3-d world, but our vision is 2 dimensional. We do have a sense of depth that comes from the fact that we possess two eyes, but fundamentally, images we see are 2-d.

reccomending to make a video about south scrimshaw, its an amazing speculative evolution and sci-fi thing. Love some videos

This video is making think about how, I might be dead in one dimension, and alive in another. Or that I might be in a dream and everything that I have done, or will do is just that, a dream. And at any moment I wake up as my 15 year old self, having to relive every moment that I’ve suffered through

This is a really well done and comprehensive video. I've been interested in this topic for a while and have come across a lot of the reference points you use here over the last couple of years. However I feel like this is the definitive overview of the topic on yt, kudos to you for this video and I will be subscribing.

One of the most interesting channels I have the pleasure of subscribing to. Keep up the good work, boss.

Love your content

16:03 even though im not epileptic, you shouldve added an epilepsy warning dude, that sht got me going "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"

Its fun to see how your channel has grown to be as big as it is now. I hope it will just keep growing so that more people get to see and wonder about all that has been, is and might be.

Sent this video to my friend and had a discussion about the idea of 4D life and they are scared of me now! Great video! Love it!

Attempt #19 *Pretty please do a video for the ecosytem from "Made in Abyss".* 💚

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

I packed for my DMT trip by watching and reading about biology and advanced physics. Now, it seems my DMT trip could be seen as my having packed for the trip that is watching this video. Truly mind-bending concepts here. I'm getting a lot of ideas on how to describe some shit in my novel I've been struggling with for months now. So, thanks!

technically the 1D game is the point of view of a 2D being, as they can't see what's inside other beings or objects, just like how our vision is a 2D representation of reality, seeing a screen of reality, the "1D game" is a 1 Dimensional screen of the 2 dimensional reality that only we would see

When it comes to time, my personal opinion is that time is a construct, it exists in all the dimensions we can experience, moving in any dimension requires moving through the constructual dimension of time.

I really enjoy your content, you dive into a lot of fascinating topics. I just wish you would make videos more frequently.

My brain expands every time I watch your videos. Love how you're experimenting with different topics, and love the humor. Thanks CA.

I love your videos. Always makes my week when a new upload drops.

Such an amazing theme and video! BTW Ramiel, the octaedron angel from Neon Genesis Evangelion in the rebuild version for me is such an amazing 4th dimension entity. Changing, appearing and dissapearing from our 3d world like magic

7:55 How to create a closed home: Create a filled cube (7x7, for example). Go one step on W, create an empty cube in the same place (walls, roof, ground), go one step W, create a filled cube. Go -1 step W, put a door in one of your empty cube's wall and enter your safe home :)

8:55 in your 1 dimensional brain

FINALLY 4D AND 5D!!! I JUST STARTED STUDYING SOME OF THIS STUFF ON MY OWN. THANK YOU!!!!!!! EDIT: incase you were wondering no im not in college.

Thank you for making this video. It helps to visualize certain concepts and acts as a source of reference on the topic (multi dimensions).

i am liking this new direction Curious Archive, looking forward to the next vid.

1:02 Mistake made here, living creature using an analogous of ours sense can only perceive thing 1 Dimension lower. 2D beings can see 1D, 3D beings can see 2D, 4D can see 3D

Oh geez, I hope he talks about 5d chess with multiverse time travel 😅 12:15 YATAZEEEE!

I've seen the movie arrival, i found it really interesting, but my parents just found it confusing, i see why they might have been confused but I really don't see why. Also can we agree 5d chess sounds amazing?

Quick question: are you planning on doing more speculative world explorations like the yaetuans, Phtanum B, Serina and dragonslayer? I particularly enjoyed those, although this is quite fascinating as well.

I love how everyone forgets multiverses don't have to be connected to time travel but can instead be dimensional in basis. With universes being "pockets" of unstable space in an otherwise infinite dimensional area, like bubbles in a pool.

Idk if you ever do recommendations, but I love your video game biology vids. I think a video on the biology of The Legend of Zelda games would be really cool. Love your videos!

Ahaha 😂❤ I knew I was onto something... It turns out that the intuitive realization I had was correct, i.e. that you can rightfully summarize the concept of dimensions as "reality filters" (like the [stacked] filter layers you can see in Adobe Photoshop). And that other forms of dimensions will undoubtedly incorporate other forms of light as individual filters that will allow consciousness to experience reality. And that with each escalating dimension, a conscious being that experiences then will still have access to lower dimension filters in order to experience reality. Ultimately, I think it is fair to state that just as reality isn't fixed, and that [for the most part] "anything can happen", the absolute is that each dimension represents a "cap"/limit to what is possible within that dimension. As with any individual, humanity's potential and capability is limited by the amount of information they have at their disposal. -'That' is the cap, the limit. The introduction of new dimensions (e.g. virtual reality) will open access to a whole new -world- dimension of reality/what is possible. If science is magic, then access to a new dimension is access to a whole other tier of magic. And eventually, I theorize that Neuro-physics 'WILL' indeed become possible... But that years ahead of our time, and likely for the best. A "low-tier" demonstration of Neuro-physics, is the route of the inventor or artist, i.e. realizing/manifesting concepts and thought into the physical reality. In a weird way, virtual reality already bridges the gap. It gives humans a taste/sense of what's possible. It will be possible to virtually play god... Again, it is for the best that such a capability is limited to small tier examples in the physical world. Chaos would be the inevitable result otherwise (especially if measures wasn't taken into consideration to enforce order). Come to think of it, I wonder if the X-Men, and other super heros movies is a surprising realistic depiction of what a life would be like if some humans could consciously tap into their restricted/limited Neuro-physics abilities. ... Since consciousness and simulations are the exact same thing, i.e. a mass of consciousness floating within a void, that consciousness would likely have the properties of a simulation [stimulated consciousness]. Dimensions come into play, as pockets of the conscious mass would be restricted to certain physical laws in order to create variation (and simultaneously entertainment/enjoyment of the lived conscious experience). Each dimension[pocket] represents a different filter in reality.... Wait. Are "black holes" objects from a different dimension????? They do fit all the criteria, don't they? And as with beings from a lower dimension, we can tell they exist; because we can sense their influence on the surrounding space. But we cannot recognize or perceive what the things are... It's [physical?] existence and the majority of it's properties is outside of what we are able to perceive as "our reality", it's existence borders outside of our senses... Hence the seeming mysterious void, and confusion it causes most scientists. You what's funny? I had an trippy, intuitive realization that a black holes is just another "sun"/star I mean, they have so much in common, even their life cycle and ability to sustain life on plants and moons that orbit them. Put simply, a black hole could be a sun that is hidden in another dimension. Hence the similar properties, but the black-hole [inter-dimensional?/crossing/intertwining] "sun" registers a pitch, black blob on our human sciences and even technological senses. ... So it's properties are forms of light (one being the so-called "hawking radiation" - pretty narcissitic to name a thing from out of space after yourself, but okay, very "Western" if you ask me. Anyway, it seems a black hole might just be a sun/giant mass from another dimension; who's properties and forms of light is outside of our evolutionary perception, our senses, receptors and ability to make sense of the data. Hence the black-blob... The human brain and our technology only registers it's existence as "blob of seeming nothing-ness". Except there's obviously a something. The thing exists and has many properties, so that isn't for "debate". ... Eh, for all know a black hole could just be gods/aliens way of minoring the universe/space/solar system. And this "tracker, monitor, or alien receptor" would be created with such advanced properties so that immature species cannot interrupt the monitor process?

I love this topic, great video.

10:12 Father Pucchi would call that heaven.

You should have mentioned greg egan! His books have loads of dimensional ideas in them! If you want a taste of 16 dimensional life, read his short “Wang’s Carpets” or the full story it eventually became, “Diaspora”

I loved the light sass and funny bits in this video, keep it up! :3

fun fact great white sharks also only have an in hole, because they are able to turn their stomachs inside out through their mouths (yes past the multiple rows sharp teeth without cutting up their internal organs) in order to expel waste.

Thank you! You explained it really concisely! While still complicated I feel like I understand it much more!

11:55 I know it’s a minor plot point, but in Star Trek Deep Space Nine the wormhole aliens don’t experience linear time either

Amazing video as always! 🤩👍

The last thing I expected to see in a curious archive video was an infinata cameo. This channel continues to to be gold tier

Your explanation about the 4th dimension was the best and easiest description i've ever heard, bravo.

Can you do an in-depth video about the Slugs from Slugterra, please?

I love all the dry humor in this one. Every video gets better and better!

I really enjoy the direction this Channel is talking. Keep it Up!

i have to say i sincerely appreciate you mentioning Everything Everywhere All At Once. it's genuinely an amazing movie. it made me cry, and if you're not convinced yet... "If we had hotdogs for fingers, we'd just get good with our feet" is a quote from the movie. if emotional, chaotic, and inspirational sci-fi is your style, PLEASE PLEASE I BEG give the movie the attention it deserves.

With Pikmin 4 coming out you have to do a biology of Pikmin episode! I'd love to see that

always love your videos

Man, a real thanks to you for this video! It's really helping me with my book.

I've been drawing a series about 4 spacial dimensional beings making contact with humans 3D beings for a couple years now and I'm glad others are beginning to explore this hidden path of interesting ideas. Cool video.

I’m loving you showing us more comedy and personality in these videos keep it up king 👑

I like how it was perfectly fine looking at hundreds of thousands of dots on a piece of paper and saying, "Yeah, this is a... uh... a 15 dimensional cube laid flat out for us to be able to comprehend it!" But thinking about what a first dimensional experience would be like is way too far.

Very nice and interesting overview! Thank you for showing and referring to the ALIEN simulator.

9:40 ok I’m not going to lie this clip caught me off guard and gave me a chuckle. Definitely love the format of this video and the random clips throughout it

The 4th dimension being considered time can cause some confusion. It's not that time is 4D, we just say '4th dimension' because we're tacking it onto the existing 3 spatial dimensions. Time is 1D, a line dimension - or possibly 2D if you buy into infinitely branching timelines.

A 4th dimensional being would be able see us from every angle at once. A 5th dimensional being would be able to see our world line. A 6th dimensional being would be able to see all of the above and every conceivable possible outcome at once.

maybe the most playfully mindblowing video I have found in my decade on the internet. Thank you very much !

So i have a theories, a 4d Creature can see all of your head angle at once For example: - You had a scar on your nape and the burn mark on your forehead, the 4d being can see both of it at once because it can manipualate time. - At 6:00 AM, you walking to school with your nape facing them, they saw the scar, 6:05 you turn your back to see a friend behind, they saw the burn mark on your forehead. So by scrolling the time between 6:00 AM and 6:05 AM, they can see both of it at once. Of course they just can using 3 axes to go around and see your forehead but since it's too annoying to do so, they used the fourth axis for more convenient. - They can even see the time when both of the scars are not there (for example the moment you are born) 6:25, this is a good example of time, you scroll to the time when the wall isnt built yet with the 4th axis, then move pass it using other 3, then again scroll the time back to the present and BOOM, you're inside

If time is a Dimension like space Then you could kinda describe an entire human life span one tree or rope like 4D form Your conception like roots as all the molecules that make you up come together Your life like a long tisting trunk, rooted in not just the place but also time you were born and continously twisting and knarling as you move across the world, wiþ smaller strands conjoined and branching off as you eat, drink, use the baþroom, have dandruff, sweat, crying bleed, have surgery, lose limbs or organs. Until you die and are buried, shown as a sudden straightness in the tree which branches out like a canopy as you break down and decompose. And some of you will Inevitably go on into another tree if we were to keep going.

Great video as usual! I like in inclusion of old cartoons in this one!

I like the timetravels chess just for the name of the strategies. Terminators gambit, Schrodinger's pawn, across the bishopverse, the list goes on. Its awesome.

The 10D and 16D cubes look a lot like mandalas. Great video! I'd love to see more videos like this!

I did salvia once and physically experienced the 2nd dimension. It wasn't just lines from my perspective. It looks like if you're squished your face parallel to a tv screen. Instead of a horizontal vanishing point, its a vertical one. You can walk "around" people by walking over them.

Hey Curious Archive you should consider covering the visual novel South Scrimshaw, theres a lot of cool speculative biology and concepts talked about and its an overall good story

09:54 thanks for giving me back my existential anxiety, been looking for that for a while.

you are so cool. right now i appreciate the awe of finding this gem of a channel.

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

Reminds me of Space Dandy and the ill-fated romance between a 2D lifeform and a 4D lifeform.

That was fantastic! I was waiting for a video like this. All that's left to do now is make another video on negative dimensions...

Thanks for covering such a neat topic! Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem also plays with dimensionality a bit. Kind of a downer of a book, but still very clever and very thrilling!

4:48 had me in stitches man XDDD

The Three Body Problem series also touches on beings from higher spacial dimensions

You could make a 2D life form with two openings - just make the digestive tract form a curve with a bulge in it, like a jigsaw puzzle piece. Technically the organism will be cut in two pieces, but those pieces will remain locked together. Food could be passed through using peristalsis, allowing the parts of the tube where the food isn't to remain tightly joined and minimize "jiggling".

THANKS FOR THE HEADACHE!! AND THANKS FOR THE GAMES IN THE DESCRIPTION IN CASE I NEED TO SKIP WORK. Good videos i have to subscribe