| Imagine for a minute that everything you
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| | humans might be just "brains in a jar"
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| see around you is not actually there. It
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| | that were being activated by chemicals or
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| is just for lack of a better phrase, a
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| | electrical currents.
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| figment of your imagination. Could it be?
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| | Next month, Prof. Rees will present his
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| The world's top scientists now think that
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| | ideas in a television documentary called
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| it could. In the Sunday Times from
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| | "What We Still Don't Know." He is
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| Britain, Prof. Sir Martin Rees suggested
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| | expected to emphasize that today's top
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| that life in the universe and everything
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| | physicists and cosmologists are seriously
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| in it may be nothing more than a giant
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| | considering this theory. One of them,
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| computer simulation. The Royal Society
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| | mathematical science Prof. John Barrow
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| professor at Cambridge University says
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| | also of Cambridge University, will
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| humans may simply be bits of software. In
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| | discuss the fine-tuned nature of our
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| other words, we program our world the way
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| | world and how event the slightest
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| we want it. We create our own world, just
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| | alteration in such things as gravity
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| like computers create a virtual world.
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| | would have devastating affects. This, he
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| Prof. Rees says that over the past few
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| | believes, proves that intelligent design
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| decades, computers have created a virtual
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| | is at work.
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| world with extensive detail.
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| | There are, however, those who do not
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| "If that trend were to continue, then we
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| | believe in intelligent design and say the
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| can imagine computers, which will be able
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| | universe is far too complex to be a
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| to simulate worlds perhaps even as
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| | simulation. Quantum mechanical
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| complicated as the one we think we're
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| | engineering Prof. Seth Lloyd of the
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| living in."
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| | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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| He adds that this fact raised the
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| | says he could begin to imagine a computer
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| question: "could we ourselves be in such
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| | large enough to simulate a whole
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| a simulation and could what we think is
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| | universe.
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| the universe be some sort of vault of
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| | What are your thoughts on Prof. Rees'
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| heaven rather than the real thing. In a
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| | theory?
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| sense, we could be ourselves, the
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| creations within this simulation."
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| Though this idea has already been
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| | STORIES NEEDED:
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| snatched up by Hollywood in such films as
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| | If you have had a paranormal experience
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| The Matrix, Vanilla Sky and The
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| | or know someone who has please contact
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| Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, back in
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| | me, as I would love to hear about it and
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| ancient Greece the philosophers of the
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| | perhaps feature the story in an upcoming
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| day did not find the notion so far
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| | issue of my monthly newsletter entitled
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| fetched. Even as far back as 2,000 years,
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| | Glimpses of the Paranormal. Please write
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| the Chinese philosopher, Chuang Tzu
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| | to: Aside from ghosts and hauntings, I
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| wondered if his whole life had been
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| | also accept stories on related subjects
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| nothing more than a dream. And in the
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| | such as witches, UFOs and crypto zoology,
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| 1600s, Rene Descartes wondered the same
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| | ESP, angels, past lives and
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| thing as noted by his famous words, "I
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| | reincarnation. Please put "Story for
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| think, therefore I am." Then in the last
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| | Newsletter" in the subject line.
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| century, Bertrand Russell propounded that
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