7.1.3. Why the Universe Appears Three-Dimensional
In The Mechanism, three-dimensional space arises through the requirement for a complete PANORAMIC GAZE around the current reading point. Three-dimensionality is not introduced as a ready-made framework around the Experience Circle.
THE FOCAL GAZE follows the manifest course of THE SENSATION. This provides one definite direction of reading. An independent side perspective requires an orthogonal orientation: a direction perpendicular to the focal axis.
One side perspective, however, is not a PANORAMIC GAZE. The O-principle requires that no possible aspect of the actuality be omitted. The orthogonal orientation must therefore be completed continuously all the way around the fixed focal axis.
In one dimension, there is only forwards and backwards along the same axis. An independent side perspective is not possible.
In two dimensions, a side perspective exists, but there are only two opposite orthogonal directions relative to the fixed focal axis. These provide no continuous circuit of orthogonal perspectives around the axis.
Only in three dimensions do the orthogonal directions form a continuous circle around the focal axis. Together with the focal direction, this transverse orientation spans a three-dimensional orientation space. THE PANORAMIC GAZE, in its complete spherical form, encompasses all directions in this space.
Three is therefore the smallest number of dimensions that satisfies the orientation requirement. The Mechanism assumes that primitive space formation uses the smallest number of dimensions that makes the complete PANORAMIC GAZE possible. Under this minimality requirement, local manifest space is three-dimensional.
THE PANORAMIC GAZE is simultaneous. FOCUS performs no physical circuit or scan requiring additional time. The O-rotation describes how the simultaneous panoramic view appears when we unfold it geometrically from a system perspective.
Three-dimensionality thus originates in the perspective structure of reading. It emerges locally during EC reading, as the smallest spatial organisation that satisfies the requirement for complete orientation around the actuality.
