The Comic Flatland Essay

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To operationalize the Rubik's cube as a unit of analysis for an idea let's break down the various components of the cube. The original cube has nine tiles per face, six faces (like a die), and six colors per side. There are exactly 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 permutations that the cube can take. To create the metaphor of the Rubik's cube as the root of an idea, we can imagine each permutation having its own total absolute meaning.

Each color could have a symbolic meaning assigned to it, thus any combination of colors would create a new meaning. If you remove the restriction of fixed colors, but leave each tile as its own 'container' of which meaning could be assigned by differing colors representing ideas, you would be left with a container (the Rubik's cube) containing faces (more containers) containing tiles (more containers) that aggregately come up with a meaning for an idea. Then we run into the problem that a human can only see a limited number of faces of the cube. The perspective someone approaches the cube from would alter the meaning of the cube (or idea).

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Thus the metaphors we use are what places us around our Rubik's cube, creating our relative realities. Now what happens when you try to solve it?.....

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