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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

All this should tell us is that we have a strong irrational preference for right angles being aligned with each other.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We have an interpreter in our head. It maps and makes sense of the mysterious whatever. Some of it cultural, some biological. It is vast. There might not even be things and space.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well yes, and what it means for "there to be things" is a whole discussion in itself. But the concepts of space and time are rather deep and fundamental (to our mental models regardless of how or if that maps to objective reality). The preference for right angles is much less fundamental and we can see past and get over it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

My point is, when we study our preference for right angles, what we're studying is the interpreter. It has quirks.