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Re: Never give up...................

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http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0801/0801.0337.pdf

The virtual reality axiom
While never commonly held, the idea that the world is a virtual reality has a long pedigree. Over
two thousand years ago Pythagoras thought numbers were the non-material essence from which
the physical world was created. Buddhism says the world is an illusion, and Hinduism considers it
God’s “play” or Lila, while Plato’s cave analogy suggested the world we see is like shadows on a
cave wall, and reflects rather than is reality. Plato also felt that “God geometrizes”, and Gauss
believed that “God computes” (Svozil, 2005), both arguing that the divine mind appears as
nature’s mathematical laws. Blake’s illustration “The Ancient of Days” shows Urizen wielding a
compass upon the world. Zuse first expressed the concept in modern scientific terms, suggesting
that space calculates [9], and since then other scientists have also considered the idea [10-16].
A virtual reality is here considered to be a reality created by information processing, and so by
definition it cannot exist independently in and of itself, as it depends upon processing to exist. If
the processing stops then the virtual reality must also cease to exist. In contrast an objective
reality simply is, and does not need anything else to sustain it. This suggests two hypotheses
about our reality:
1. The objective reality (OR) hypothesis: That our physical reality is an objective reality that
exists in and of itself, and being self-contained needs nothing outside of itself to explain it.
2. The virtual reality (VR) hypothesis: That our physical reality is a virtual reality that depends
upon information processing to exist, which processing must occur outside of itself.
Whatever one’s personal opinion, these views clearly contradict. If the world exists as an
objective reality it cannot be virtual, and if it exists as a virtual reality then it cannot be objective.
That the world is an objective reality and that it is a virtual one are mutually exclusive. Each
hypothesis has implications, e.g. objective reality suggests the universe as a whole is permanent,
as it has nowhere to come from or go to. It implies the sort of physical realism statements that
quantum theory contradicts, for example [17]:
1. Object locality: That objects exist in a locality that limits their event interactions.
2. Object reality: That objects have inherent properties that their existence carries forward from
one moment to the next, and these determine their behavior independent of any measurement.
To illustrate the depth of the contrast, consider the primary axiom of Lee Smolin’s recent book:
“There is nothing outside the universe” [18 p17].
The edifice of science itself is often assumed to rest upon this apparently self-evident statement,
yet it is precisely this statement that VR theory contradicts. Indeed the prime axiom of virtual
reality theory can be obtained by reversing Smolin’s axiom, namely:
There is nothing in our universe that exists of or by itself.
This axiom

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Re: Never give up...................
By: faul in ALEA
Tue, 12 Mar 13 7:09 PM 		Msg. 12833 of 54959

Medicines mainly outperform placebo's when they are
first introduced as new information(the drug)
enters into the system or "Field".

As Belief/Intent effects reality.....this new information comes with a lot of Intent(The Intent?beliefs of scientists,drug companies,trials etc all effecting the new information drug)

After the new information is launched,for
every time it doesn't work as prescribed it
falls down the probability curve of it working
the next time....for every time it works it goes
up the probability curve......But eventually all
drugs fall down the probability curve to become
ineffective.

Science must then search far and wide to find
new information,not already in the "field" to
have any effect.......

but it's all placebo/intent/belief based healing.

Why does Belief effect an Objective reality?

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