Very true. Everything I typed is in fact a post hoc rationalization. Sadly enough, I had to look that up since Latin is not my first language. LOL. Have a chuckle at my expense. I promise I don't mind at all.
> Are you predicting that the 2D hexagonal structure will also be lost in a 2D environment with odors/etc., and this conclusion about it being 2D vs 3D is false?
I'm no rat expert and I don't play one at my desk.
I am saying that the discovery that navigating in a true 3D situation, a much more complex situation than navigation of a planar structure with a floor and ceiling and no opportunity to take the stairs to the next level, involves an order of magnitude more complexity and that as a result they should not have expected to see the grid structure preserved and echoed in the brain as a spherical 3D hexagonal grid. There were indications that the grid stored contextual information along with positional information and that changing one of those things warped the grid in ways they didn't understand (2D case).
This in itself should've been a clue that adding another dimension or degree of freedom of movement could have its own very different footprint.
Very true. Everything I typed is in fact a post hoc rationalization. Sadly enough, I had to look that up since Latin is not my first language. LOL. Have a chuckle at my expense. I promise I don't mind at all.
> Are you predicting that the 2D hexagonal structure will also be lost in a 2D environment with odors/etc., and this conclusion about it being 2D vs 3D is false?
I'm no rat expert and I don't play one at my desk.
I am saying that the discovery that navigating in a true 3D situation, a much more complex situation than navigation of a planar structure with a floor and ceiling and no opportunity to take the stairs to the next level, involves an order of magnitude more complexity and that as a result they should not have expected to see the grid structure preserved and echoed in the brain as a spherical 3D hexagonal grid. There were indications that the grid stored contextual information along with positional information and that changing one of those things warped the grid in ways they didn't understand (2D case).
This in itself should've been a clue that adding another dimension or degree of freedom of movement could have its own very different footprint.