🤯 More Thoughts on the Nature of the CULT of the Simulacrum
Chapter 3 of THE WORLD CULT & YOU
Sol Luckman
In modern times the simulation hypothesis—popularly referred to as simulation theory—has gained a widespread following in such diverse fields as physics, mathematics, computing, and philosophy.
The simulation hypothesis has become so widespread, in fact, it has turned into—I wince to say it, but honesty compels me—a sort of cult in its own right, one composed of many sub-cults that love to attack one another as sub-cults relish doing.
This isn’t the place to unpack the many varieties and nuances of this at times extremely technical theory that’s like a tree with many branches.
But consider that as far back as the landmark article “A Holographic Concept of Reality” presented at the First International Congress of Psychotronics in Prague in 1973 and first printed in the JOURNAL OF PSYCHOENERGETIC SYSTEMS in 1975, a team of researchers headlined by physicist Richard Alan Miller were already establishing a bioscientific framework for what would eventually be called the simulation hypothesis:
We propose that the “reality hologram” which appears as a stable world of material objects is the elementary particle which has a long-term existence and fairly simple rules of interaction. We also propose the existence of a “biohologram” which appears mobile and evolving, through the DNA molecule. This “biohologram” projects a dynamic three-dimensional image that serves as a guiding matrix for the manipulation and organization of the “reality hologram.”
Thus we have mobile self-organizing holograms moving through a relatively static simpler hologram. The possibility exists that such “bioholograms” could achieve sufficient coherence to continue existence as a pattern of radiant energy apart from a material substrate. We feel that such an occurrence could form the scientific basis of such psychoenergetic phenomena as psycho-kinesis, clairvoyance, telepathy, and precognition.
