A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something symbolically, as we do when we speak or write, is somehow to capture it, thus making it one’s own. But with this appropriation comes the realization that we have denied the immediacy of reality and that in creating a substitute we have but spun another thread in the web of our grand illusion. –Heinz Pagels
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PAG e-NEWS: 20 April 2010
— questioning dogma, ideology, authority, reality, and whatever is left
— peeking behind the curtain
— thinking outside the program
— looking below the surface
— lifting the veil
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Published by Peter A. Gersten, Esq. (ufolawyer@msn.com)
Website: http://www.pagenews.info
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COSMIC COMPUTING
I believe that our reality is an intelligently designed holographic simulation: a cosmic computer program (CCP). I also believe that CCPs are enclosed (no entry or exist in physical form ) within solar systems and and totally controlled by cosmic programmers. Within a controlled program free will is as much an illusion as reality itself. Not only are the choices pre-programmed – but so is the selection process. Unfortunately our CCP has been hacked by a cosmic intruder bent on destroying carbon-based life forms.
Design? Yes. Evolution? Yes. Contradiction? No. Then why the Controversy?
Design is a necessary assumption, because chance doesn’t explain the facts. But evolution is likewise a necessary assumption, for given the way this universe works, the evolution of complexity is a logical and by now well-documented consequence. Therefore the rational conclusion is not design or evolution. It’s design for evolution.
Proof That We’re Living a Life of Illusion
When I first saw The Matrix back in 1999, I instantly became fascinated with its “virtual reality world” concept. At the time, and for many years afterwards, I saw the theme as a metaphor for the illusionary material world we live in—a world of time, space, and the assumption that we are all separate individuals.
Scientists say free will probably doesn’t exist, but urge: “Don’t stop believing!”
One of the most striking findings to emerge recently in the science of free will is that when people believe—or are led to believe—that free will is just an illusion, they tend to become more antisocial.