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The best way to understand the suggestion is to explore the conceptual possibilities. Let's say that you are the maker of a fictional world that has a degree of reality to itself, but not to our reality. The hierarchy of that fictional world, no matter how big, would never manifest into reality. For those thinking about dimensional differences, there are dimensional differences in each of those hierarchies and they only make up the structure of each one, not between themselves.
Just like you can create a story about 3D persons, you can do about 4D, 5D, 6D, and so on. Yet, they won't ever go beyond their own fictional hierarchy. Yet, your own reality can have a dimensional hierarchy of its own and you are 3D. There could be 4D or above beings you can't perceive, but they are still an extension of your "physical reality". In the same way, if your physical world is in fact fictional to a higher hierarchy, it can also have its own dimensional hierarchy.
Generalizing a lot, there are like 3 major ways to depict fiction/reality interactions. And funny enough, you get all 3 in DC Comics.
The first is that all fiction is the same degree of reality, but the ideas of each reality can move across their 3D worlds and move across 4D bleed and reach other worlds as ideas that are depicted in fictional worlds. In extreme cases, you have Earth-Prime where matter can't move because of a fictive barrier that only allows ideas to pass through. So in this case, there's no qualitative superiority in the nature of reality and the fictional element is merely because people get ideas inspired, unknowingly, from what happens in other real universes.
The other is depicting dimensional differences as fictional differences. The point of this is inspired by the idea that our drawings are 2D, and we, 3D beings, make them. This, of course, is not true. We don't draw 2D, we draw 3D by moving 3D particles across a panel and arranging them in a way that the general 2D cross-section represents the fictional idea we have, but it's not the same as the fictional idea itself. However, since the idea exists and a lot of comic book writers decided to move on with that (Such as Grant Morrison), that became a very common depiction of reality-fictional metaphor that was what we used before. But, when you think about it, dimensional difference is just an extension of physical existence, not something beyond it.
If you pick 5D imps when they were depicted as physical dimensions, they are 5D exactly because they encompass the 3D dimensions, it's just that they encompass
2 more. In any way, higher-dimensional existence is the extension of physical existence into more physical directions than a lower-dimensional physical existence, but still the same type of existence. If a 5D being were to destroy the three dimensions of space we live, if they share these three dimensions, the 5D would in fact become 2D, because they exist in the same level of physical existence.
The third type is actual fictional/reality interaction in that the two are completely different natures and the physical hierarchies exist inside each of them. It's kind of how Grant Morrison depicted themself in Animal Man. As the author's avatar said, no matter how many "realer worlds" they depicted on the page, they would never really be the world of reality they're from because they're still depicting it only in fiction, not reality. So the difference between reality and fiction it's not that of a fictional expansion because no matter how much you expand fiction, it'll never reach reality.
Just like you can create a story about 3D persons, you can do about 4D, 5D, 6D, and so on. Yet, they won't ever go beyond their own fictional hierarchy. Yet, your own reality can have a dimensional hierarchy of its own and you are 3D. There could be 4D or above beings you can't perceive, but they are still an extension of your "physical reality". In the same way, if your physical world is in fact fictional to a higher hierarchy, it can also have its own dimensional hierarchy.
Generalizing a lot, there are like 3 major ways to depict fiction/reality interactions. And funny enough, you get all 3 in DC Comics.
The first is that all fiction is the same degree of reality, but the ideas of each reality can move across their 3D worlds and move across 4D bleed and reach other worlds as ideas that are depicted in fictional worlds. In extreme cases, you have Earth-Prime where matter can't move because of a fictive barrier that only allows ideas to pass through. So in this case, there's no qualitative superiority in the nature of reality and the fictional element is merely because people get ideas inspired, unknowingly, from what happens in other real universes.
The other is depicting dimensional differences as fictional differences. The point of this is inspired by the idea that our drawings are 2D, and we, 3D beings, make them. This, of course, is not true. We don't draw 2D, we draw 3D by moving 3D particles across a panel and arranging them in a way that the general 2D cross-section represents the fictional idea we have, but it's not the same as the fictional idea itself. However, since the idea exists and a lot of comic book writers decided to move on with that (Such as Grant Morrison), that became a very common depiction of reality-fictional metaphor that was what we used before. But, when you think about it, dimensional difference is just an extension of physical existence, not something beyond it.
If you pick 5D imps when they were depicted as physical dimensions, they are 5D exactly because they encompass the 3D dimensions, it's just that they encompass
2 more. In any way, higher-dimensional existence is the extension of physical existence into more physical directions than a lower-dimensional physical existence, but still the same type of existence. If a 5D being were to destroy the three dimensions of space we live, if they share these three dimensions, the 5D would in fact become 2D, because they exist in the same level of physical existence.
The third type is actual fictional/reality interaction in that the two are completely different natures and the physical hierarchies exist inside each of them. It's kind of how Grant Morrison depicted themself in Animal Man. As the author's avatar said, no matter how many "realer worlds" they depicted on the page, they would never really be the world of reality they're from because they're still depicting it only in fiction, not reality. So the difference between reality and fiction it's not that of a fictional expansion because no matter how much you expand fiction, it'll never reach reality.
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