Benjamin Goertzel wrote:
Well ... going beyond imaginary numbers... how do *you* do mathematics in quaternionic and octonionic algebras? Via visualization? Personally, I can sorta visualize 4D, but I I suck at visualizing 8-dimensional space, so I tend to reason more abstractly when thinking about such things...
Just visualize it in N-dimensional space, then let N go to 8. -- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=53003544-daa2f4
