Thread: Encoding

Not being a scientist there are various words that pop up now and then that I think I have an idea of what it means. I know myself that I can’t trust what my brain interprets it as. One of these words is …. Encoding. To me it sounds like I’m making a code up for something. I went by that for a long time and of course got confused when I saw it in print for various topics, especially when they talk quantum anything.

Online dictionary:

COMPUTING
convert (information or an instruction) into a particular form.


My brain acts like a computer so I figure that’s what it must be doing when I’m sensing something like light for instance. But now I hear the 3D world is actually a conversion of 2D universe information. If I’m converting information from a 2 spatial dimension universe then where do I really exist , on a 2D or 3D plane? Does it mean everything I see is a hologram?

When a telescope receives light from the stars it does so on a 2d surface and this information can be used to build up a 3d (4d?) picture.

Does the human eye work the same way?

Just because the processing surface is 2d may not mean that the picture or signal is also 2d.