Muriel wrote:
I have tried to introduce Keanu Reeves's Matrix movie into this discussion of networking for the specific reason it dealt with the illusory human perception of reality which is based on the habitual day to day choices people make in the world they live in and the need to break free from "this" world and make new choices.
I am saddened that my spark has not kindled any fire.
Don't be sad. I introduced the Holographic theory partly in response to your early reference to 'The Matrix.'
The Wachovya brothers partly based their film plot on this theory and of course science fiction. But the point is the same: the world we see is not real. It is a hologram, an illusion, projected by a 'master programmer.' Our senses cheat us that it is real.
Of course Hollywood needs excitement so they had to have kick ass fight sequences; a bunch of villains and a love interest to spice things up.
The simple fact is you are the Master programmer; the software is 'Consciousness' and the hardware is the Singularity.
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)