title: Not Impossible!: How Our Universe May Exist Inside of a Computer
author: G. Hanson
description: In the process of developing an AI algorithm that mimics how the brain represents information using networks, I discovered that I had inadvertently created a virtual universe driver, and that the resulting universe exhibited characteristics of our quantum universe. With the recent discussion in physics of the universe as information, the strange idea that somehow our universe might itself be driven by an information system found tentative purchase. Not Impossible! is the development of this idea, and also explores: <P> An operational definition of existence and reality. <BR> A model for how we humans think, and mentally represent our world. <BR> An explanation of human understanding, cognition, dj vu and familiarity, and more. <BR> A model of how the brain thinks and models the world using just networks of neurons. <BR> A programmable, and powerful, AI algorithm based on this brain/network model. <BR> Experimental results that imply that free will doesnt exist...but we see that there is a way out. <BR> A demonstration of how choice and free will may involve the quantum collapse of potentials. <BR> A discussion of the mind/brain and the mind/body problem. <BR> A demonstration of why the quantums discreetness must occur in a computerized universe. <BR> A demonstration that our universe behaves, in many ways, like a program running in a computer. <BR> A fun demonstration that our body images, and thus our bodies, must be totally imaginary. <BR> Multiple demonstrations that our material/spatial world must be imaginary and doesnt really exist.
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  Copyright © 2020 by Kimberly Sheetz
  
  
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  # Just A Hook Up
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Alexx Andria
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Back cover blurb](part0004.html#3Q280-1e0217918a10459794fa3709aebbe1bd)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [A Note From Alexx](part0005.html#4OIQ0-1e0217918a10459794fa3709aebbe1bd)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0006.html#5N3C0-1e0217918a10459794fa3709aebbe1bd)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0007.html#6LJU0-1e0217918a10459794fa3709aebbe1bd)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0008.html#7K4G0-1e0217918a10459794fa3709aebbe1bd)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0009.html#8IL20-1e0217918a10459794fa3709aebbe1bd)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5]