Why do we live in three-dimensional space? Why do we live so poorly? How to find the truth

Everyone thinks only about their own momentary comfort...

Therefore, if a person is indifferent and selfish towards others, then such a person will undergo severe trials in life, which will change his attitude towards others and vision of life. It’s a pity that a person will spend part of his already short life on this lesson...

Continuation of the article “ Why do we live so badly" in the article "Do you want to live well? "..

Kris.h.Nive
based on an article by Artemy Lebedev

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Often the cause of poverty lies in people's subconscious. They see and hear what their parents report and act according to the pattern, unconsciously. This is how genetic poverty is developed, poisoning the lives of many generations who cannot escape the tenacious clutches of stereotypes and the underlying principle of behavior.

How often have you paid attention to people? Have you noticed that some people behave relaxed, smile, enjoy life and are always in high spirits? And there is another type of people - always in a hurry, with their heads hung low, grumpy and unkemptly dressed. Do you feel the difference? And often it is not the people themselves who should be blamed for such behavior, but those who showed and said that this is correct.

Causes of genetic poverty

To understand what is hidden behind the term “genetic poverty”, it is necessary to delve into the essence of this process and understand the mentality of people who drag themselves into the swamp of a joyless life, not realizing that they can live differently by simply breaking the pattern.

Reason one: mentality

Imagine a situation: you come to visit a person and are amazed at what is happening in his house. Dirty floors, old wallpaper, a shabby sofa, unwashed windows... And your brain begins to paint you pictures of what you would do with this room, how you would clean it, what you would change. Dirt is one of the signs of poverty. Where there is untidiness, unnecessaryness and a desire to give up, there is this very poverty. The mentality of people is different, but those who are used to living in a mess are poor in soul and are unlikely to be able to change their lives for the better. This behavior often appears in those who have lived their entire lives looking at the similar life of their parents or relatives.

Reason two: philistinism

Think back to your childhood. Surely many of you will remember how they were told that they should not touch anything new. Here is a sideboard, it has new beautiful dishes, but under no circumstances should they be touched, because this is for guests. And you continue to drink tea from a chipped mug with a chipped handle, sighing over a soup plate yellowed from time to time with small cracks and scratches. And so it is in many families: everyone is waiting for some special occasion, they continue to admire the beautiful purchased items, but do not allow themselves to use them. This negative program is passed on to children who will adhere to the same line of behavior, limiting themselves in anticipation of that very holiday day when beautiful and new things will come in handy. It’s just that over time they turn into garbage and rubbish, but they continue to be carefully stored. The brain no longer perceives them as garbage, and draws pictures of fresh, just purchased towels, sheets...

Reason three: sheer savings or Cinderella syndrome

The terrible word “hoarding” haunts many throughout their lives and is passed on “inheritedly” to children. Saving and the desire to save up for something can be beneficial, but what is much more common is a beggarly understanding of this process. People deny themselves everything, don’t buy good products, wear the same clothes for years. This understanding is far from a happy life. The desire, for example, to buy a dacha or a car is commendable, but you should not forget about yourself. Living from hand to mouth in order to become the happy owner of a treasured house in the outskirts after many, many years? Will this bring happiness in the end? Often, at the moment when the cherished goal is achieved, people can no longer live differently and continue to strictly limit themselves in everything. Their children, brought up according to the principle “we can’t afford it,” begin to lead the same lifestyle, mercilessly saving on necessary purchases and embarrassed to buy a new thing for themselves, because that’s how their parents raised them. This is called genetic poverty, the fear of spending money on yourself and not denying yourself the purchase of necessary household items.

Reason four: subconscious programming

As children grow, they observe the behavior of their parents and get used to the environment that surrounds them. If parents do not bother themselves to clean things up, do cosmetic repairs, and even take a bath, wash clothes, and take care of shoes, children perceive this behavior as normal. They copy their behavior and carry it through their entire lives, programming their offspring for such a poor life in captivity of their own disregard. Agree, you don’t have to spend huge sums to make your home look cozy. Inexpensive but clean furniture, fresh wallpaper, clean floors, windows - all this creates cleanliness in the minds.

Ways to get rid of genetic poverty

There is a way out of any situation. People themselves can help themselves break out of the vicious circle and say goodbye to negative habits and mentality. After all, we see, hear and feel the delicious aroma of fresh bread, the smell of cleanliness and freshness after cleaning and airing, smiles and pride from the repairs done. We ourselves make our life comfortable in our own understanding.

If you need to change something, be sure to change it! Get rid of old junk on the balcony. Believe me, a ski pole that you “use for something” has been lying in the corner for years. Throw it away. And these plastic bottles - how much more water or juice will you buy? So what, do you need every plastic container? This is how the impoverishment of the mind begins - with the accumulation of supposedly necessary and necessary things. What about this shirt? Yes, my love, but she is already many years old, she looks like a doormat. Don't you notice this? So wipe the mirror, wash the windows and look around.

If you see that your home looks more like an antiques shop, and your wardrobe is almost a couple of decades old, then you urgently need to get rid of these things. Not immediately, gradually, getting used to the new state of freedom and independence from old stuff and rubbish.

One fine morning, take that proverbial new cup and pour your favorite drink into it. It will be much tastier than what you drank yesterday, but from an old cup. If you don't believe me, check it out!

Turn on your favorite music and take down the curtains from the window (it’s time to wash them anyway). Go to the store and buy yourself something new. One, not expensive, but new. With label. Put it on right in the store, and throw the old thing in the trash. Yes, it's possible!

Lay down new bed linen and listen to your feelings in the morning - your mood has improved, you slept sweetly and comfortably. It works!

Clear out the clutter of unnecessary things. Just do it. Not immediately, gradually. Throw away this old newspaper and the mountain of dusty books that you don’t like. Give them away, put them outside with a note, sell them - just get rid of what's taking up space in your home.

Start transforming everything and soon you will feel great relief and joy from every new day. Remember that poverty is in the mind, and it is in your power to get rid of this obsessive and sticky feeling of dependence on other people’s opinions imposed on you. Your life is your rules. As soon as you begin your transformation, life will begin to present you with pleasant surprises, believe me! We wish you happiness and success, and do not forget to press the buttons and

“Since 1926, when Max Scheler introduced the term “philosophical anthropology,” quite a few attempts have been made to answer the question of the essence of man while maintaining a philosophical point of view. The most important discovery of philosophical anthropology is that the essence of man is his ability to build himself, and therefore to constantly change the content of the answer to the question about his own essence.”

This quote most accurately reflects the understanding of the person discussed below.

So, the essence of a person is his ability to build oneself. What is meant here is conscious the ability to form oneself based on their own desires and aspirations - self-education.

Self-education, for some reasons, directly contradicts the determinism of modern culture in the existential sphere of human existence.

“Ultimately, the fact that the previous generation did something (or that it did something in one way and not another) cannot in itself be a sufficient basis for the reproduction (repetition) of these actions in the future.”

The main difference between this type of person and the one described is that he stops live-from-outside, and starts live-from-yourself. He becomes a person who lives the way he lives, acts the way he acts, thinks the way he thinks. And for this he does not need any external circumstances. He is like this because he wants to be like this, he is like this and finds a way to be like this. His development, movement through life, his being depend only on himself, his aspirations.

This is “a person in himself, being in himself for himself - not needing any support or programming from the outside. He doesn’t need anything outside to be what he wants to be.”

That is, he fully, in all its manifestations without exception conditioned from within.

Every person has a so-called “core personality”, which constitutes a set of self-evident norms. Self-evident norms emerge in the process of experiencing subjective truth- when a person accepts something with full confidence that it is exactly so and not otherwise. These truths are implanted in a person from childhood, mainly through the authority of parents, and then continue to develop in the process of socialization.

Here the problem of freedom arises, because truths are laid from outside without the knowledge of the person and no one after will not explain to him the relativity of all these truths for the simple reason that the transmitter of these truths himself experienced them once as truths, and therefore cannot apply to them critical.

In order for a person to become completely conditioned from within, there must be an “extraction” of everything brought in and the construction of his own reality. As a rule, quite often removing a person from the state of cultural conditioning is carried out with the help of Another as an intermediary, a kind of bridge between subjective reality and objective (cultural) reality, and it is important what happens to a person during this transition - when a person can take a meta-position in relation to culture and himself?

This opportunity appears when a person finds himself in an existential vacuum, a metaphysical emptiness - when everything that he relied on, all the laws by which he lived - everything suddenly becomes unreal, absurd, what is called in Hinduism Mayan(the illusory nature of the world).

How can a person fall into an existential vacuum? One of the reasons may be the current cultural situation. The pace of change in public, social, and state life is such that it has created the preconditions for changing the very nature of human cultural conditioning. In different countries, the entire system of previous conditioning is increasingly being called into question, that is, situations arise when a person can notice things that he was not able to notice before.

Why? Because new views have emerged on the necessary aspects of external conditioning. There was a mutual collision of all possible aspects of conditioning. Both I myself and the World find myself extremely naked in front of me for some period of time.

This is where the possibility arises of “exiting the mechanisms of life and the mechanisms of oneself into some empty space and the birth of a new life. That is, the “thing” either happens or doesn’t happen... If, nevertheless, “the thing happens,” a person can realize that there is no “really” All values, goals and meanings relative, from this moment only he himself is the measure of all things and phenomena surrounding him - he alone is the criterion of truth.

Here the transition from “outside” to “inside” can begin to take place. Creativity plays a very important role in this transition.

“When you switch (if you switch; this, of course, is not a moment, this is a process), no one will offer you anything. There is nothing to choose from, nothing to look for, nothing to adapt to - you have to do everything. There is nothing ready-made...Everything must be done, everything that previously came ready-made. You will be like a fish that must make its own sea, or pond, or river. Nobody offers anything, it’s all creativity. And not in a figurative sense, but in a literal sense, because even if you take something ready-made, you must somehow transform it - fill this form with your content.”

Thus, a person begins to create his own reality, his own history - the one that he himself consciously chooses. That is, man was not created by nature and evolution. Man is created. Continuously, over and over again created. Created in its own history, with the participation of its own individual efforts - with the participation of itself. He masters culture and creatively overcomes it - self-realization.

This process becomes continuous, because It is human nature to constantly go beyond one’s limits, to constantly change. With this approach, continuous education acts as a mode of development of the personal existence of an individual.

Generally speaking, every person is in continuous education. A person’s life is his reality, and everything that he experienced in it, learned, did, etc., one way or another, in gross or subtle form, is imprinted in all aspects of his existence - psychological, physical, mental - any. The only difference is that some people are not aware of it, and some are aware of it.

For the latter, this education is in the nature of self-education, because they control the surrounding space and filter all information coming from society to the “inside” and “from the inside out” (at least as much as possible – to the extent that this is even possible in principle).

If such control is present, a person can perceive himself as a text that is being read - because. by his behavior he somehow influences the surrounding space and everyone who enters it. And his own life as a text - as the most important text he wrote.

Thus, the idea of ​​“continuity of education” or the idea of ​​“self-education” is directed against the predetermined and controllable way of acting, feeling and thinking, and thus against culture as the basis of uncritical education.

P. G. Shchedrovitsky also spoke about this:

“...processes of self-determination, processes of formation...always take place in some cultural, sociocultural environment, and therefore rely on certain sociocultural institutions... However, as this space emerges, we are increasingly faced with the fact that sociocultural and the spatial environment is not equipped for development, and the guidelines that this environment creates diverge and contradict the goals and values ​​that we, as subjects practicing development, put forward.”

The conclusion from everything considered will be a description of the concept “ epimeleia » – « self care" - introduced by Michel Foucault. He considered self-care an essential necessity and the ultimate goal of any person's life. A person who takes care of himself is characterized by the following:

1. A unique and individual way of looking at the world, acting and entering into relationships.

2. Shifting your gaze from the external, surrounding world to yourself. It involves a kind of observation and control over one’s own thoughts, actions, etc.

3. A certain way of action carried out by the subject in relation to himself - an action by which he changes, purifies, transforms and transforms himself.

“A person must strive...to acquire the status of a subject, which he never had before. The non-subject should be given the status of a subject, which is determined by the completeness of his relationship to his “I”. You need to create yourself as a subject...”

Merab Mamardashvili said approximately the same thing.

“People are liberated exactly to the extent that they themselves have made their own path of liberation from within themselves, for all slavery is self-enslavement. “Inner freedom” is not underground freedom at all, either in the social sense or in the sense of mental underground. This is truly manifested freedom in the sense of the liberation of a person within himself from the shackles of his own ideas and images, the liberation of human self-sufficiency and existence.”

We live in a three-dimensional world: length, width and depth. Some may object: “What about the fourth dimension - time?” Indeed, time is also a dimension. But the question of why space is measured in three dimensions is a mystery to scientists. New research explains why we live in a 3D world.

The question of why space is three-dimensional has tormented scientists and philosophers since ancient times. Indeed, why exactly three dimensions, and not ten or, say, 45?

In general, space-time is four-dimensional (or 3+1-dimensional): three dimensions form space, the fourth dimension is time. There are also philosophical and scientific theories about the multidimensionality of time, which suggest that there are actually more dimensions of time than it seems: the familiar arrow of time, directed from the past to the future through the present, is just one of the possible axes. This makes possible various science fiction projects, such as time travel, and also creates a new, multivariate cosmology that allows for the existence of parallel universes. However, the existence of additional time dimensions has not yet been scientifically proven.

Let's return to our 3+1-dimensional dimension. We are well aware that the measurement of time is related to the second law of thermodynamics, which states that in a closed system - such as our Universe - entropy (the measure of chaos) always increases. The universal disorder cannot decrease. Therefore, time is always directed forward - and nothing else.

In a new paper published in EPL, researchers have suggested that the second law of thermodynamics may also explain why space is three-dimensional.

“A number of researchers in the field of science and philosophy have addressed the problem of the (3 + 1)-dimensional nature of space-time, justifying the choice of this particular number due to its stability and ability to support life,” said study co-author Julian Gonzalez-Ayala from the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico and the University of Salamanca in Spain to the Phys.org portal. “The value of our work lies in the fact that we present reasoning based on a physical model of the dimension of the Universe with a suitable and reasonable space-time scenario. We are the first to state that the number “three” in the dimension of space arises as an optimization of a physical quantity.”

Previously, scientists paid attention to the dimension of the Universe in connection with the so-called atropic principle: “We see the Universe like this, because only in such a Universe could an observer, a person, arise.” The three-dimensionality of space was explained by the possibility of maintaining the Universe in the form in which we observe it. If the Universe had many dimensions, according to Newton's law of gravity, stable orbits of planets and even the atomic structure of matter would not be possible: electrons would fall onto nuclei.

In this study, scientists took a different route. They proposed that space is three-dimensional due to a thermodynamic quantity, the Helmholtz free energy density. In a Universe filled with radiation, this density can be thought of as pressure in space. Pressure depends on the temperature of the Universe and on the number of spatial dimensions.

Researchers have shown what might have happened in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, called the Planck Epoch. At the moment when the Universe began to cool, the Helmholtz density reached its first maximum. Then the age of the Universe was a fraction of a second, and there were exactly three spatial dimensions. The key idea of ​​the study is that three-dimensional space was “frozen” as soon as the Helmholtz density reached its maximum value, which prohibits the transition to other dimensions.

The picture below shows how this happened. Left - free energy densityHelmholtz (e) reaches its maximum value at temperature T = 0.93, which occurs when space was three-dimensional (n = 3). S and U represent entropy densities and internal energy densities, respectively. The right shows that the transition to multidimensionality does not occur at temperatures below 0.93, which corresponds to three dimensions.

This happened due to the second law of thermodynamics, which allows transitions to higher dimensions only when the temperature is above a critical value - not a degree less. The Universe is continuously expanding, and elementary particles, photons, are losing energy - so our world is gradually cooling: Now the temperature of the Universe is much lower than the level that implies a transition from the 3D world to multidimensional space.

The researchers explain that spatial dimensions are similar to states of matter, and the transition from one dimension to another resembles a phase transition, such as the melting of ice, which is possible only at very high temperatures.

“During the cooling of the early Universe and after reaching the first critical temperature, the principle of entropy increment for closed systems could prohibit certain changes in dimensionality,” the researchers comment.

This assumption still leaves room for higher dimensions that existed during the Planck era, when the Universe was even hotter than it was at its critical temperature.

Extra dimensions are present in many cosmological models—most notably, string theory. This research may help explain why, in some of these models, extra dimensions have disappeared or remained as tiny as they were in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang, while 3D space continues to grow throughout the observable Universe.

In the future, the researchers plan to improve their model to include additional quantum effects that may have occurred in the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang. In addition, the results of the augmented model can also provide guidance for researchers working on other cosmological models, such as quantum gravity.

Why do we often think about the question of what is the meaning of life? What do we live for? How to live to be happy? What do I need to be happy? What happens when I succeed or fail? What will my parents say if I don’t live up to their expectations? How to find the strength to get up from your knees after another defeat? Why should we experience defeats and trials, what is the point? Why does everyone say to draw conclusions by observing other people's mistakes? And why do we form these conclusions only when we make mistakes ourselves? Why can’t we implement our plans the first time, or even worse, don’t understand what we want? All these weighty and seemingly banal questions arise in the thoughts of every conscious person.

Every day we watch the ups and downs of different people, our family, friends or strangers. Even as children, we ask our parents many strange questions, including: “Mom, what is life? What is its meaning, why does everyone live differently?” And often parents do not explain things clearly to us, perhaps because they themselves made mistakes along their path in life. It is logical that every child is dominated by positive emotions, bright dreams, hopes, smiles and fun.

The older we get, the more such pure, frank, childish optimism moves away from us. At school we begin to encounter the first manifestations of injustice. When children treat each other differently, criticize their parents for their appearance, financial situation, or have dissimilar views on a particular situation. Also, children are always surprised by the attitude of teachers, their preferences and encouragement for this or that child. First, the child’s future worldview is formed in the family environment. Parents, by their attitude towards each other, towards children, towards life and problems on their way, form a certain model-scheme of the future child. Therefore, when children grow up, they often try to imitate their parents, or, on the contrary, not to repeat mistakes.

As adults, when we begin to soberly observe everything and everyone around us, we think about the above-mentioned questions. This childish naivety disappears, uncertainty and confusion appear, because of which we often don’t know what we want to achieve in life and how to make the right choice. Despite the strong-willed people who have already realized themselves in life and made their dreams come true, we wonder where we can get so much patience, willpower and desire to work. After all, it’s no secret that basically the path to success is “covered with thorns,” of course, if your parents are not millionaires and don’t put you up to everything. Rich and smart people break through walls of problems and disappointments on the way to their dreams. Some reach the goal, while others give up and crush their good intentions and projects into powder, not finding inner strength and support from others, focusing on their own fears and prejudices.

So what is the reason for such falls on the path to success?

After successive failures, people begin to analyze every step, looking for a mistake. Sometimes they think that they understand where they made a mistake, and sometimes they shift the blame onto someone else (it’s just as simpler, right?). But why, understanding the reasons for failures, nothing works out again and again?

Often their unbridled impulse to change everything for the better fades away after a month or two or even in a matter of days. The reason could be anything. Starting from uncertainty in choice, "friendly advice", bad luck, uncertainty, lack of motivation or support - ending with complex disappointment in everything and everyone. In fact, scientists have conducted many studies that have found that there is no universal cause of falls.

It often seems that some evil force of bad luck is constantly holding us back, hindering us and criticizing us, no matter what we undertake. The reason for everything lies in a more philosophical and spiritual world, and not in external factors. It’s not for nothing that there is a statement: “All our thoughts materialize.” But what if this is really true? Then in order to achieve our goal and, above all, understand our desires, we need to learn to think in a positive direction, and most importantly, think about what we are thinking about (no matter how absurd it is no matter what it sounds like)! Also, everything depends on even very small steps and decisions that we take hundreds of times every day. It is such small steps that become the foundation and building blocks of our success in life. It is in the sea of ​​such insignificant and simple steps that our secret treasures lie. , hiding hopes, desires and dreams!

In order to go through an ocean of trials on the way to a dream, often there is not enough willpower, motivation, support or moral push (the so-called kick or the phrases: “Gather your willpower into a fist and don’t start snot”). All these factors usually help you move forward, but often not for long. We are afraid of monotony and are afraid of changes, not knowing what they will be. Therefore, our dreams pull us to the bottom if we are not confident in ourselves. Willpower is one of the significant factors on the path to self-development. Very often you can hear the statement that willpower is the ability to force ourselves to do things that we don’t like. This statement is undoubtedly wrong. In fact, the ability to choose your long-awaited activity among many options is willpower.

People have been training their willpower for centuries, exhausting themselves physically and mentally with unnecessary things. Only after such misunderstandings with oneself do they understand the meaning of the concept - willpower. Its meaning is to voluntarily work on oneself and something, without violence. But what should people do if, having chosen the desired lifestyle, they cannot once again realize everything they have planned?

And the question arises: “Why am I not living the way I want?” First of all, this is because we are strongly influenced by external factors: the situation in the country, the economy and lack of money, bad luck with love, disappointment in a person, lack of proper education, or even banal envy of successful people. Because of such things, we have forgotten how to listen to ourselves, to our hearts and minds. And the ability to understand yourself is the most important for any implementation of your plans. It doesn’t matter whether our desires concern the sphere of personal relationships, family, friends, education, work or leisure. All areas are interconnected and without creating the desired model for each of them, we will not feel happy and successful. Therefore, you should always remember the phrase mentioned earlier in this article: “All our thoughts materialize.”

If your dream does not come true after the first, second or tenth attempt, perhaps you should think about it - is it your longed dream or the advice of a friend or brother, because it will be better? If the desire is really yours and it is sincere and strong, you make incredible efforts and daily work to realize it, and not just visualize it in your thoughts, believe me, it will come true!

Often we don’t live the way we want, because we don’t believe in our own strengths and capabilities to achieve success. Many people make mistakes or choose, for example, a profession that is not theirs. But they don't give up. For example, the story of one mathematics teacher, who taught at the university for 15 years, touched his students and became a driving force for them. He taught mathematics to children and students every day for 15 years, which he hated in his heart. He was tired of the constant checking of notebooks, surveys and the University atmosphere. One day he decided to change his profession, as he wanted. He was always interested in the field of information technology and, in his free time, independently studied program testing. Having studied a lot of theory, he submitted his resume to an IT company, where he subsequently successfully passed an interview and changed jobs. He risked his career and the respect of his colleagues and students, but did not change his own desire and succeeded on his own.

So, even the stories of simple and little-known people help us move on. The main thing is to believe in your own strengths, work well, not be afraid of self-development, change for the better and confidently know what we want! Then everyone will live exactly the way they want!

“Success is nothing more than a few simple rules followed daily, and failure is simply a few mistakes repeated daily.” Jim Rohn.