eli5 please explain to me “n” dimensions

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I get 1, 2, and 3 dimensions and their visual representations. For instance, 3-dimensional space has width, length, and depth but how about a 6-dimensional space, how can we grasp it in n intuitive manner free of mathematical analysis?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

>To deal with hyper-planes in a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say “fourteen” to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

[Geoffery Hinton](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/coursera/lecture2/lec2.pdf)

Anonymous 0 Comments

>To deal with hyper-planes in a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say “fourteen” to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

[Geoffery Hinton](https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/coursera/lecture2/lec2.pdf)

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