How do you recognize people and things in dreams? How many dimensions are you working with there?
Reality is structured in consciousness and is processed differently in different levels of consciousness.
Why does a 2D captured image of my dog in my yard look like my dog in my yard, and how can it be instantly recognizable to me?
It seems to me that a photo must capture a sustantially accurate 2D representation of a 3D scene and the objects in the scene, and that I can recognize the scene/objects from the photograph because my mind's representation of reality is substantially accurate as well.
Being able to recognize the whole from parts would be an essential survival skill, something you'd expect your reality generator to be able to do.
Your dog, of course, is not
Really what your mind represents it to be. It's a convenient abstraction, like a symbol in a technical drawing or a company logo. Your
Real dog is more like a quantum field perturbation; a twist of cosmic string. Moreover, Rover's not
Really an entity separate from yourself or a teapot, as you'd see if you could observe him in all 10 or 11 dimensions.