Conceptmapping Thesis: Chapter 2, part 4. Natural conception of space

2.4 Natural conception of space

The extent of our experience thus dictates an arbitrary limit on the dimensionality that we understand. However, there is no such limit on the complexity of relationships between objects. It is these relationships that dictate the pattern of a system that we seek to comprehend, and it is these which we attempt to represent, model, or imitate, usually for the benefit of others when we write a passage of text or design a computer system.