This new conception of life involves a new kind of thinking – thinking in terms of relationships, patterns, and context.
The frame of a photograph is two dimensional. It has height and width. What we see through the viewfinder of a camera has three dimensions. It includes depth.
Two dimensional thinking and perceiving is much simpler that three dimensional thought, which includes consideration of context, the nature of relationships, and recognition of patterns. Two dimensional thinking and perceiving involves broad use of the categories of right and wrong, helpful and unhelpful, good and bad, with us or against us.
Two dimensional thinking arises out of fear. Survival is either/or. It is a faster way of thinking because it is reactive. Putting situations and people into broad categories of safe or unsafe allows us to react quickly without losing time considering the consequence. This is a helpful response if you are being stalked by a predictor that sees you as dinner. Context, relationships, and patterns don't matter when the only question is how to survive.
Two dimensional perceiving is short term and self-centered.
