Once the square realizes that the line will not understand what he is trying to portray, he finds himself back in Flatland very discouraged. Along comes a "circle" who tries to explain to this square of a dimension that he belongs to. He tries to enlighten the square by trying to relate with him that he can move in six different directions and that he is in fact a sphere from Spaceland. The sphere eventually convinces the square of the things he knows. At this understanding the square mentions the thought of a dimension beyond that of the sphere's knowledge. The sphere believes that the square has lost it, "how can it be possible to have another dimension?" Then the square takes his new knowledge and goes to the other beings of Flatland to try to portray to them of what he was enlightened. He finds himself fighting an endless battle. These other beings are not willing to accept what he is stating, all because they have yet to have the experience. To say there is no other dimension is madness. I know for absolute certainty there are an infinite amount of dimensions. This may feel as awkward for us to fathom as for a square to believe there is a third dimension. We can relate this not only to scientific thought, but more so to every aspect of the world today. The only means of progression is being eager to learn.
Crick and Koch state the following: .
Everyone has a rough idea of what is meant by being conscious. For now, it is better to avoid a precise definition of consciousness because of the dangers of premature definition. Until the problem is understood much better, any attempt at a formal definition is likely to be either misleading or overly restrictive, or both. If this seems evasive, try defining the word "gene." So much is now known about genes that any simple definition is likely to be inadequate. How much more difficult, then, to define a biological term when rather little is known about it.
