Any good visual images to explain complicated ideas?

[TheatreAddict]

I’m not really looking for anything in particular, but I just recently took a look at http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​fc/​​you_are_a_brain/​​ at You Are a Brain presentation. It was really good, and helped things click for me. Does anyone else have any recommendations for extreme beginners? I’m interested in learning most anything really, I’ve read a few of the Sequences, like the Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions, How to Actually Change Your Mind, and half of Reductionism. The Quantum Physics section looks really cool, but unfortunately it’s beyond me, as of now. I’m trying to get teachers to help me, but it appears to be beyond them as well. But anyway, if you don’t have any videos, pictures, or presentations, do you at least have any good textbooks to recommend? For beginners?

[cata]

May or may not be what you’re looking for, but there are some real gems here:

http://​​mathoverflow.net/​​questions/​​8846/​​proofs-without-words

There’s also this one, although the visual aspect doesn’t really clarify very much.

http://​​lesswrong.com/​​lw/​​t6/​​the_cartoon_guide_to_löbs_theorem/​​

[amcknight]

Probably not for beginners, but for what it’s worth: Best Textbooks on Every Subject

[piphd]

How about this website for graphic representations of profound ideas: http://​​PiALOGUE.info

[printing-spoon]

Can you see how there might be a “need” for “inter-dimensional” or “hyper-dimensional” thinking and visualization capability which may be the basis for so-called “alien” technology? Do you find this as exciting as I do?! :o)

Okay.