# Check out this link of an interview about our universe as a virtual reality

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**Created:** [January 29, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/check-out-this-link-of-an-interview-about-our-universe-as-a-virtual-reality/2481 "2008-01-29T20:54:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dick\_Robertson](http://discourse.iapct.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Dick\_Robertson](http://discourse.iapct.org/u/Dick_Robertson)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 8:54pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/check-out-this-link-of-an-interview-about-our-universe-as-a-virtual-reality/2481/1 "2008-01-29T20:54:55Z")

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[From Dick Robertson, 2008.01.28.1450CST]  
[earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1381&category](http://earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1381&category) = SCIENCE  
**Brian Whitworth, Ph.D., Information Systems,Senior Lecturer, Institute for Information and Mathematical Sciences,**  **Massey**  **University** \*\*,\*\* **Auckland** \*\*,\*\* **New Zealand** \*\*: \*\* “The most co

They were brought up from childhood to believethis. And you one day had the idea that it was an objective reality – that itwas not created by computer processing, that it was just actually there inexistence. And I said to you, ‘OK, why don’t you prove it?’ I think you wouldhave a bit of trouble proving it.

You could say, ‘Well, I know the world isobjective because I experience it.’

People would reply, ‘But you only experienceyour input.’

And someone might say, ‘Well, I have lots ofmathematical laws that can predict things.’

And the other says, ‘Well, of course you dobecause it’s all based on mathematics.’

Then you say, ‘Look, the universe is enormous!It’s huge!! How can it possibly be a virtual reality to be so big?’

And the other would say, ‘It’s only big to you.It’s only big to people inside it.’

common comment you would expect is,‘You can’t prove it.’ But if you think about it, let’s suppose that everybodythought the world was a virtual reality.

And so on. He identifies why quantum theory is so unsatisfying even though its numbers keep coming out right.  
It’s a fun article, and provokes some interesting thoughts.

Best,

Dick R.

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**Author:** ![MartinT](http://discourse.iapct.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@MartinT](http://discourse.iapct.org/u/MartinT)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:57am UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/check-out-this-link-of-an-interview-about-our-universe-as-a-virtual-reality/2481/2 "2008-01-30T03:57:22Z")

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Re: Check out this link of an interview about our  
universe  
[Martin Taylor 2008.01.29.22.55]

Dick, your message arrived here rather garbled, with bits  
apparently missing, and the URL is incomplete, so I, at least, can’t  
find it. Here’s how your message begins, as I see it…

> [From Dick Robertson,  
> 2008.01.28.1450CST]  
> [Could Our Universe Be A Virtual Reality Processed By Other Intelligence? – Earthfiles](http://earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1381&category) = SCIENCE  
> \*\*Brian Whitworth, Ph.D., Information Systems,Senior Lecturer,  
> Institute for Information and Mathematical Sciences, Massey  
> University, Auckland, New Zealand: \*\* "The most co  
> They were brought up from childhood to  
> believethis. And you one day had the idea that it was an objective  
> reality - that itwas not created by computer processing, that it was  
> just actually …

Could you try resending the link, if not the whole message?

Martin

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Robertson](http://discourse.iapct.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/2acd7d/32.png) [@Dick\_Robertson](http://discourse.iapct.org/u/Dick_Robertson)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 3:45pm UTC](http://discourse.iapct.org/t/check-out-this-link-of-an-interview-about-our-universe-as-a-virtual-reality/2481/3 "2008-01-30T15:45:45Z")

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[From Dick Robertson,2008.01.29.0945CST]

Martin,

Sorry about that. I checked my post and can’t find anything wrong. Don’t know what happened. Maybe I left a space in the url where I shouldn’t have, but, I forwarded the url from the message I got it from. That should work. The interview is not too long, but quite interesting.

Best,

Dick R.

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> > > [Could Our Universe Be A Virtual Reality Processed By Other Intelligence? – Earthfiles](http://earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1381&category) = SCIENCE
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> > > \*\*Brian Whitworth, Ph.D., Information Systems,Senior Lecturer,  
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