Comments on: Greedy time: An interview with Patrick Lee Miller http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/01/10/greedy-time-an-interview-with-patrick-lee-miller/ Secularism, religion, and the public sphere Thu, 16 May 2013 19:41:38 +0000 hourly 1 By: Steve Gabor http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2011/01/10/greedy-time-an-interview-with-patrick-lee-miller/comment-page-1/#comment-41210 Steve Gabor Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:31:19 +0000 http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/?p=21381#comment-41210 In the Republic, Plato placed *axiomatic* restrictions on Heraclitus’ 4-dimensional model of reality, forbidding both the flow of time and shifting relations in perspective in or between objects. This permitted him to say that it is true that a coin must be either heads or tails at a given time. But it also left him looking at the world in only two dimensions, as if watching the horses and charioteers on the frieze of the Parthenon forever frozen in battle!

However, both of these are immanent in the sense that their dimensionality is the same as, or lower than, that of experience. To have transcendence, wouldn’t we need to have more than four dimensions?

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