The Simulation Hypothesis: Part I of II
Documentary in Part II.
Why science is never settled
The ever-accelerating pace of change tasks humans to become less attached to how we ‘think’ things should be and instead look closer at new scientific models of understanding. Science is meant to be continuous discovery, test/re-test hypothesis, evaluate/re-evaluate findings, uplevel previous discoveries and celebrate new ones. Hence science can never be settled.
The memory field
Dr. William Brown
Sept 29, 2025
What if memories aren’t “stored” like files inside your brain? Emerging evidence suggests a radical alternative: experiences leave patterns in the fabric of space itself, and subcellular structures inside neurons act like resonant dials that retune those patterns on demand. Synapses help you find the right station; the broadcast lives in spacetime.
Recollection becomes less like opening a saved file and more like re-tuning a resonator to a pattern that still exists in the underlying field. [Quantum Field]
Five physical senses - all in the mind
Peter Russell
Physicist
Today we know a lot more about how the brain constructs its picture of reality. When I look at a tree, light reflected from the tree forms an image of the tree on the retina of my eye. Photo-sensitive cells in the retina discharge electrons, triggering electro-chemical impulses that travel down the optic nerve to the visual cortex of the brain. There the data undergoes a complex processing that detects shapes, patterns, colors and movements. The brain then integrates this information into a coherent whole, creating its own reconstruction of external world. Finally, an image of the tree appears in my consciousness. Just how my neural activity gives rise to a conscious experience is the “hard problem”. Even though we have no idea how an image appears in the mind, it does happen. I have the conscious experience of seeing a tree.
Similar activities take place with the other senses. A vibrating violin string creates pressure waves in the air. These waves stimulate minute hairs in the inner ear, which send electrical impulses on to the brain. As with vision, the raw data are then analyzed and integrated, culminating in the experience of hearing music.
Chemical molecules emanating from the skin of an apple trigger receptors in the nose, leading to the experience of smelling an apple. Cells in the skin send messages to the brain that lead to experiences of touch, pressure, texture and warmth.
Imagination
In short, all that I perceive–all that I see, hear, taste, touch and smell–has been reconstructed from sensory data. I think I am perceiving the world around me, but all I am directly aware of are colors, shapes, sounds and smells that appear in the mind.
Our perception of the world has the very convincing appearance of being “out there” around us, but it is no more “out there” than are our nightly dreams. In our dreams we are aware of sights, sounds and sensations happening around us. We are aware of our bodies. We think and reason. We feel fear, anger, pleasure and love. We experience other people as separate individuals, speaking and interacting with us. The dream appears to be happening “out there” in the world around us. Only when we awaken do we realize it was all just a dream–a creation in the mind.
When we say “it was all just a dream” we are referring to the fact that the experience was not based on physical reality. It was created from memories, hopes, fears, and other factors. In the waking state, our image of the world is based on sensory information drawn from our physical surroundings. This gives our waking experience a consistency and sense of reality not found in dreams. But the truth is, it is as much a creation of our minds as are our dreams.
The world we see around us is not the physical world. The world we actually know, is the world that takes form in our mind. And this world is not made of matter stuff, but mind stuff. Everything we know, perceive, and imagine, every color, sound, sensation, thought, and feeling, is a form that consciousness has taken on. As far as this world is concerned, everything is structured in consciousness. https://www.peterrussell.com/SG/ch4.php
Understanding models of reality
Peter Sage
An important distinction.
A model of the world is how you make sense of the world, how you see things, what meaning you give it. Your model of the world is usually from beliefs adopted from age 0 to 7 as a child unconsciously, your cultural upbringing, environmental influences, beliefs, peer group, significant emotional events. All of that combines into a kaleidoscopically unique experience you have of your life and how your perceive the world.
A model of reality is how and why you think life works the way it does. Not how you interact with life, your model of the world, but how and why you think life is.
Part II
Scientific predominant models of reality and why it’s important to choose one of them. We’ll explore whether human beings are the creators, the created, or perhaps both.
Without prejudice and without recourse
Doreen Agostino
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