Are we all living in a Cosmic Matrix?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/04/a-glitch-in-the-matrix-documentary-rodney-acher

A lot of people just never bothered to deeply ponder, The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR)

TRON is just Sci-Fi entertainment, as is THE+MATRIX , etc.

https://builtin.com/hardware/simulation-theory

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50

Many people were already busy with life in general to really think of the big picture.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

https://www.businessinsider.com/the-matrix-do-we-live-in-a-simulation-2019-4

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=THE+MATRIX

By this point in history or the cosmic interactive recording and projection, people have science as well as legends and myths to explore and compare TNOR with the help of VR technology. https://www.fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-thinks-theres-a-50-chance-we-live-in-a-matrix-2016-9

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/07/tech-billionaires-think-we-live-in-the-matrix-and-have-asked-scientists-to-get-us-out.html , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nFdlvYxjpI

https://www.businessinsider.com/bank-of-america-wonders-about-the-matrix-2016-9

People have had over 2 decades to gradually absorb the various concepts of reality.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3788735/There-50-chance-living-Matrix-world-simply-SIMULATION-says-Bank-America.html

What if the universe or multiverse is in something like an IMAX or a VR Planetarium?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9625703/Physics-Scientists-capture-highest-resolution-images-atoms.html

How would we even know? https://www.fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9625141/Largest-map-dark-matter-created-using-light-100-MILLION-galaxies.html

Various religions and philosophies have implied that this cosmic construct is the product of some kind of Superintelligence , a creator or programmer... 

Thus, from their perspective this world is part of a cosmic Simulation. 

https://hackernoon.com/religion-and-the-simulation-hypothesis-is-god-an-ai-part-i-e2ac0016ca1e

https://www.zenentrepreneur.com RV https://www.zenentrepreneur.com/more-info

https://hackernoon.com/tagged/the-matrix , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation_hypothesis

RV and NB have such interesting perspectives that sometimes intersect or overlap.

https://www.nickbostrom.com

Nick Bostrom: Simulation and Superintelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #83 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfKiTGj-zeQ

Nick Bostrom & Ros Picard • God, AI & the future of humanity: Is technology the key to immortality? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHcrLpWICm8 , https://www.youtube.com/c/Unbelievableshow/videos

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+MATRIX+intersection

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Simulation

https://www.forbes.com/sites/janetstemwedel/2015/08/23/the-philosophy-of-star-trek-the-kobayashi-maru-no-win-scenarios-and-ethical-leadership/?sh=3c00441d5f48

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Maru

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/09/incredible-star-trek-the-next-generation-simulation-ordered-to-stand-down/

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holodeck

https://theconversation.com/star-treks-holodeck-from-science-fiction-to-a-new-reality-74839

https://www.healthysimulation.com/14175/the-kobayashi-maru-lessons-on-simulation-from-star-trek

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Picard

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=VR+technology

The Aberfan Disaster: Premonitions and the Aftermath

 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv2rj0k6dkgo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-10764455/After-Aberfan-disaster-foreseen-people-premonitions-two-men-investigate.html

https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-premonitions-bureau

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220211-the-animals-that-predict-disasters

Officially, we are told that this world can't be part of an interactive cosmic recording of time and space. Too many people would start to ask too many questions. Thus, the perception of reality is heavily compartmentalized through various belief structures & sciences. Yet, more people are starting to question the various perspectives.

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/matrix/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20premise%20for%20The%20Matrix,simulacra%20world%20of%20The%20Matrix

Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc

The simulation hypothesis is a contemporary theory about the nature of reality. However, the concept goes much further back into history. 

400 years before the first MATRIX movie, William Shakespeare wrote this...

"All the world’s a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;

They have their exits and their entrances;

And one man in his time plays many parts..." https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56966/speech-all-the-worlds-a-stage

Benedict Cumberbatch - All The World's A Stage - The Seven Ages Of Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0178jo7Mka0

Like a stage within a cosmic-matrix theater, people sometimes have glympses or visions of future events.

https://jamesmdeem.com/stories.time.aberfan.html

https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/life-examined/sam-knight-premonitions-bureau-aberfan-john-barker-esp-future

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/4yxj6Y743Z6F32k5GC2txv8/six-eerie-predictions-from-the-premonitions-bureau

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc

The Simulation Hypothesis Explained by Nick Bostrom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvnIXeAz1mk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_World's_a_Stage_(album)

The band RUSH has had some peculiar insight with some of their songs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Peart#Lyricism One song in particular was as if NP was writing about Neo no longer being a digital man trapped in the Matrix.

Rush - Digital Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJsRBIId14U

https://www.rush.com/songs/digital-man (1982)

His world is under observation
We monitor his station 
Under faces and the places
Where he traces points of view

He picks up scraps of conversation
Radio and radiation
From the dancers and romancers 
With the answers, but no clue

He'd love to spend the night in Zion
He's been a long while in Babylon
He'd like a lover's wings to fly on
To a tropic isle of Avalon

His world is under anesthetic
Subdivided and synthetic
His reliance on the GIANTS 
In the science of the day

He picks up scraps of information 
He's adept at adaptation
'Cause for strangers and arrangers
Constant change is here to stay

He'd love to spend the night in Zion
He's been a long while in Babylon
He'd like a lover's wings to fly on
To a tropic isle of Avalon

He's got a forcefield and a flexible plan 
He's got a date with fate in a black Sedan 
He plays fast-forward for as long as he can
But he won't need a bed 
He's a digital man

He'd love to spend the night in Zion
He's been a long while in Babylon
He'd like a lover's wings to fly on
To a tropic isle of Avalon

He's got a forcefield and a flexible plan 
He's got a date with fate in a black Sedan
He plays fast-forward for as long as he can
But he won't need a bed
He's a digital man

He plays fast-forward for as long as he can
But he won't need a bed 
He's a digital man

He plays fast-forward for as long as he can
But he won't need a bed 
He's a digital man

He plays fast-forward
For as long as he can 

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: Geddy Lee / Alex Lifeson / Neil Peart

Digital Man lyrics © Ole Core Music Publishing, Anthem Core Music Publishing

https://genius.com/Rush-digital-man-lyrics

The Black Sedan. https://www.autoevolution.com/news/this-digital-matrix-car-has-modernized-1965-lincoln-continental-vibes-all-over-it-178350.html

A closer look at the+simulation theory of PKD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eThOlVS5MU8

There might be a quick and subtle reference to the likeness of PKD in the 4th Matrix movie. https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220301-philip-k-dick-the-writer-who-witnessed-the-future 

"In Neuromancer, Gibson first used the term "matrix" to refer to the visualized Internet, two years after the nascent modern Internet was formed in the early 1980s from the computer networks of the 1970s." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Visionary_influence_and_prescience

https://www.netlingo.com/word/matrix.php

Of course WG has his various observations and perspective of things. https://williamgibsonbooks.com

Why You're Probably Not a Simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA5YuwvJkpQ However, there is still something very peculiar going on, nevertheless.  

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=On+the+Threshold+of+a+Dream

ZOO TV, The MATRIX of VR and Holographic Data Storage...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/sevenages/events/stadium-rock/zoo-tv-tour , 

https://www.u2.com/zoo_tv_tour/id/54 , http://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html ,

Earth's location/ in the galaxy-zoo. + http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080210.html

ZOO_TV  DVD  Hybrid_drive

Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992. Neo in 1999. Watch more ZOO TV.  http://www.thematrix101.com/matrix , http://fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html

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What is reality & how is all this cosmic information stored?
There could be many-worlds & levels within the Cosmos. VR technology has a long way to go until it attains what's depicted in some movies. Of course the universe might actually be a super advanced cosmic VR program. See: Michael_Talbot_(author)#The_Holographic_Universe &
http://www.theuniversesolved.com
Indeed, Jim Elvidge has quite a unique book & web site that provides compelling data about reality.
http://www.theuniversesolved.com/news.htm

Hopefully, many more people will start to ponder the notion of a Cosmic Operating System, figuratively or literally.
Detailed simulations of the Earth, this galaxy & even vast parts of the known universe can be constructed. Its just a matter of how much accurate data can be entered into a Sim program. Obviously, the closer to earth the more accurate such simulations can be.

September 17, 2008 - Films Showing Our Best Visualization of the Ocean's Circulation
http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/ocean410/ocng410_course_schedule.html ,
http://www.top500.org/system/5628 ,
http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/06/04/necs-updates-its-supercomputer-earth-simulator-system-breaks-record ,
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/sci_update.php?DocID=239 ,
http://colossalstorage.net/home.htm ,
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-5d-storage-dvd-polarization-colours-3d-swinburne-chon-nature.html

Eventually these simulations could become very realistic & cause many more people to wonder if they are already in simulation created by someone else?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS88G5WBcfQ&feature=related ,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVsHjnY-o9s&feature=related
Indeed, most religions imply that a creator or force has already constructed the universe. Such an immensity of data would have to be organized like cosmic computer programs in the sky. The concept of Akashic_records has been around thousands of years before the development of Virtual Reality & the avatar-machine. Holographic-environments exist in a way & in a way they don't, its a quantum sort of thing.

Ashoka_Chakra ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bud_wheel.htm


In ancient times, it would be difficult for most people to grasp the concept of a crystal ball. 3D images in a sphere or ovals are depicted on this disc of lives from the 1200s. These life experiences are part of the wheel of Karma concept. It could also be seen as an ancient depiction of a cosmic hard drive. Reincarnation#Buddhism & the big interactive recording of space & time.
http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/truth/karma.htm ,
http://www.buddhanet.net/wheel2.htm
This ancient wheel is depicting a video-disk. Its full of bubble images of various life experiences.
Douglas Trumbull would later expand on this image bubble concept in the movie, Brainstorm.
The Multiverse Disc Theory is just the modern version of the wheel of time & space concept.

Hard_disk_drive#Capacity_measurements
Today when most people see a hard drive or DVD, they know that sounds & images can be stored on them. Hard_disk_drive#Integrity Single-molecule_magnet#Future_applications ,

http://www.smarthdd.com/en/magnetic_record_technology.htm ,

http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_from_inside.html ,

http://www.duxcw.com/digest/guides/hd/hd6.htm ,

http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_Tracks_and_Zones.html ,

http://www.quickercomputer.com/quicker/defrag.html ,

Hybrid_drive Virtual_reality#Timeline ,

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/artem-rubtsov/9/97/19 ,

http://www.librarything.com/tag/virtual%20reality&more=1 ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/site/7895/galaxy-zoo.html ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/8295/-darkfield-lasers-let-mice-track-on-glass.html ,

http://thefutureofthings.com/news/9710/western-digital-tv-live-hd-media-player.html ,

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/tech-5d-storage-dvd-polarization-colours-3d-swinburne-chon-nature.html

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Metaphor: Suppose a galaxy is essentially like a giant holographic_disc of space-time & other forms of data. There is shape & form that's like a pattern & program, so then what if the universe or cosmos is like a vast hard drive?

Then several of these HDs could be part of a multiverse. The wheel of karma is an ancient concept & eventually VR programs could simulate vast parts of the known universe. What's astounding is that several people since ancient times believe that a creator has started everything in the cosmos. So, if that's the case, then the whole thing is running like an immense & intricate cosmic program. Several scientists already have arrived at this conclusion. They just view nature & the cosmos as a running program without a creator. Whether by chance or created design, the universe is running like a well organized system.

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The oval & the spiral are found throughout nature & space.

Some how since ancient times, humans have associated the shape of the wheel or disc as being connected to transportation & information.

http://www.theuniversesolved.com/theuniversesolved/blog/post/2009/02/First-Evidence-of-the-Multiverse.aspx

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The Roots of the Matrix
http://fusionanomaly.net/cybernetics.html ,
http://www.thematrix101.com/matrix/symbolism.php ,

http://www.thematrix101.com/books , http://www.thematrix101.com/games

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Since ancient times, several people had the idea that the earth & universe are in a created field of consciousness & data. Eventually sophisticated VR life experience worlds will be created.

http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/high-tech-gadgets/holographic-environment.htm

So, various ancient writings & legends imply that we are already in some kind of cosmic running program.

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Nanotechnology: Big Things Emerging From The Smallest Components Of Matter
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/technology-2/nano-tech ,
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Nanotechnology 

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http://amal.net/?tag=technology

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Dimensions: The Dimensional Ecology of the Multi-verse by, Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

http://exopolitics.blogs.com/exopolitics/2008/10/post.html

(http://www.exopolitics.com)

http://thefutureofthings.com/category/science/physical-science/astronomy-space ,
http://thefutureofthings.com/category/ai-robotics

http://fusionanomaly.net/nodebase.html

Is The Holographic Universe concept just another wild theory?

Are people like lab mice in someone's cosmic game of life and death?

What would VR+technology be like after a century of development? What would VR be like after 1,000 or 100,000 years? It might seem to be Even Better Than The Real Thing. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=the+multiverse

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Quantum+Machine+Learning

Who is John Matrix and who is John Wick?

 https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/1vrk5uc/i_get_goosebumps_every_time/ 

Sometimes a certain name will become more pertinent in a person's life. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/1vrk5uc/comment/p4fkmt9/ 

Then later on, that name will even have even more significance. 

https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzeneggers-best-movie-featured-the-ultimate-80s-action-hero

https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/1vrk5uc/comment/p4ex3yy

Technically, one could say that there is no connection between John Matrix and John Wick. 

However, several years before Joel_Silver would meet The_Wachowskis to eventually produce the first and then 2 more MATRIX movies, he just happened to produce the Commando movie with its main character being, Colonel John Matrix. https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/John_Matrix

https://letterboxd.com/producer/joel-silver 

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/llct7i/til_before_joel_silver_produced_some_of

Then, at the end of the first MATRIX movie in Sydney, Keanu Reeves as Neo walks out of a phone booth that's across the street from a building with a peculiar shape. 

https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Matrix+filming+location

There happens to be a building across the street from the Sydney phone booth that has a similar shape to the NY Continental Hotel in the John Wick movies.

https://melodydexter.com/more/blog/radisson-blu-sydney-the-john-wick-hotel 

Is it just another coincidence, or is it synchronicity?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Paradox+Sydney

Of course when people first saw the MATRIX in 1999, there was no concept of the John Wick character yet, let alone the wedge shaped Continental Hotel. 

So as Neo takes off from the phone booth, it is revealed that he is like the Superman of cyberspace, or is part of the Superman MATRIX. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix (1999) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo_(The_Matrix)#Powers_and_abilities

https://reactormag.com/the-essential-storytelling-device-that-fuels-superman-and-the-matrix

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1978_film)

https://superman.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_(Christopher_Reeve)

https://www.christopherreeve.org/community/super-man-the-christopher-reeve-story 

https://superman.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_(George_Reeves)

https://13thdimension.com/george-reeves-superman-it-took-decades-but-i-finally-get-what-made-him-great/

One of the key things about pondering a simulation theory, thought experiment is to notice some very peculiar synchronicity that does seem to be part of this earthly reality. 

https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation Some say that its just not possible, so don't bother to look for any clues.

How many people just thought that it's impossible to have a cosmic scale simulation? So, don't give it any serious thought. Really?

https://www.reddit.com/r/STEW_ScTecEngWorld/comments/1oki1h7/ubco_study_debunks_the_idea_that_the_universe_is At the very least, the simulation hypothesis is a fantastic plot element in several Sci-Fi stories.

Yet, something like a very advanced version of SimCity, the 13th Floor & very advanced flight simulators, can still reveal plenty of clues about this world. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Superman+Matrix

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Carrie-Anne+Moss+before+and+after+all+The+MATRIX+stuff

The Nature Of Reality (TNOR)

What is, The+Nature+Of+Reality? (TNOR) Is this world part of a cosmic MATRIX? 
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Reality , http://fusionanomaly.net/realities.html
This can be a personal quest as well as a general human cultural quest.
http://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/virtualreality.html
There are many questions and there are several answers about TNOR.
http://fusionanomaly.net/holographicuniverse.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/neuromancer.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(Doctor_Who) Since 1976.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Assassin#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams_for_Sale 1985
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentence_(The_Outer_Limits)#Plot 1996

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#History_and_origins ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrorshades 1986
http://fusionanomaly.net/cyberpunk.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/memory.html ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#Film_and_television ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Maddox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mnemonic_(1995_film) ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHFOxciYklI

No_Maps_for_These_Territories 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Maps_for_These_Territories#Background_and_premise
There have been some interesting intersections between William Gibson and U2 over the years.
https://www.atu2.com/news/connections/gibson

The William Gibson MATRIX certainly added to the concept of Big Data and Data-streams...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Visionary_influence_and_prescience
"a.k.a. the matrix

A term coined by author William Gibson in his novel Neuromancer, it refers to a vast computer network or growing mass of interconnected networks." https://www.netlingo.com/word/matrix.php , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson#Influence_and_recognition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer#Background

Of course by the early 1990s, U2 would end up doing their own version of the Cyberpunk music and entertainment theme and stream.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour 1992-1993
ZOO Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQbrNVAMTLQ

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992.jpg
Even Better Than The Real Thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5BWzQ2nHo
The U2 MATRIX on tour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtung_Baby#Zoo_TV_Tour ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV:_Live_from_Sydney 1993
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0x_R2cv1o8
So of course The MATRIX has to be filmed in Sydney.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Filming  

The_Matrix_Poster 1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix#Plot
So in the early 1990s, Bono was flying around The ZOO+TV MATRIX before people saw Neo doing his Superman thing in The MATRIX.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuM6ZwGunlE
{"Agent Smith: "Can you hear me, Morpheus? I'm going to be honest with you. I hate this place, this ZOO, this prison, this reality, whatever you want to call it...."}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYL28a0LM_A

Digital_rain_animation_medium_letters_shine.gif ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_digital_rain#Background ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix_(franchise)#The_Ultimate_Matrix_Collection

The_Thirteenth_Floor_poster from 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor#Plot
Obviously The_Matrix_(franchise) was intended to be on a much larger scale than The 13th Floor. However, The 13th Floor is just as fascinating in exploring TNOR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators 1965-1969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You're_Gonna_Miss_Me In another context, this song could have been a warning about people opting out of their reality and going into Virtual Reality. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVpHNEPzDM , 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Psychedelic_Sounds_of_the_13th_Floor_Elevators
"Slip Inside This House" by 13th Floor Elevators, as performed on the "Easter Everywhere" album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwSA0Tckwbk ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_13th_Floor_Elevators#The_first_two_albums
Question TNOR, indeed.

http://fusionanomaly.net/elevators.html
The Thirteenth_floor is a level that exists and yet doesn't exist in many buildings. It can be a mechanical floor or a service and storage floor or sometimes it's skipped or omitted. That just means it's not officially in the building floor count, but its still there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction#Literature ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction#Film ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality_in_fiction#Television

SF stories can help people to imagine and visualize various aspects of reality and alternate realities.
http://fusionanomaly.net/sciencefiction.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/arthurcclarke.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/quantummechanics.html

Themes of Reality, Divinity and Humanity in the Short Stories of Philip K. Dick (PKD)
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg/misc/pkd.html , http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ousfg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Films , http://fusionanomaly.net/bladerunner.html

wikipedia/en/4/49/Blade_Runner_spinner_flyby.png

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick#Quotes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cosmic_Puppets (1956/1957)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Satellite_science_fiction_195612.jpg ,
http://fusionanomaly.net/dimensions.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/metaphysics.html

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/NASA_child_bubble_exploration.jpg ,

http://fusionanomaly.net/imagination.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/100thmonkey.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_in_the_Sky_(1957_novel)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Collage_Auge_im_Himmel_byL%C3%B6ser.jpg ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS_trilogy , http://fusionanomaly.net/valis.html ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALIS#Philosophical_and_cultural_references

http://fusionanomaly.net/williamgibson.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/stanleykubrick.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/davidlynch.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/terencemckenna.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/robertantonwilson.html

http://fusionanomaly.net/culturejamming.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/holograms.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour#Conception
ZOO TV was all about big time entertainment and emerging digital technology on the horizon. However from another perspective, what if this world is part of someones zoo?

"The zoo hypothesis speculates as to the assumed behavior and existence of technically advanced extraterrestrial life and the reasons they refrain from contacting Earth and is one of many theoretical explanations for the Fermi paradox. The hypothesis is that alien life intentionally avoids communication with Earth, and one of its main interpretations is that it does so to allow for natural evolution and sociocultural development, avoiding interplanetary contamination, similarly to people observing animals at a zoo. The hypothesis seeks to explain the apparent absence of extraterrestrial life despite its generally accepted plausibility and hence the reasonable expectation of its existence.^[1]

Aliens might, for example, choose to allow contact once the human species has passed certain technological, political, or ethical standards. They might withhold contact until humans force contact upon them, possibly by sending a spacecraft to planets they inhabit. Alternatively, a reluctance to initiate contact could reflect a sensible desire to minimize risk. An alien society with advanced remote-sensing technologies may conclude that direct contact with neighbors confers added risks to oneself without an added benefit." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis 

In this movie the humans don't realize that they are on some ET laboratory ship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_City_(1998_film)#Plot ,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_hypothesis#Appearance_in_fiction

http://fusionanomaly.net/alien.html ,
http://fusionanomaly.net/vortex.html , http://fusionanomaly.net/nodes.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Nature+Of+Reality 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+13th+Floor

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Cyberpunk 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ZOO+TV 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Superman+Matrix

The Cosmic Computer Hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 , 
http://www.novaspivack.com/uncategorized/is-the-universe-a-computer-new-evidence-emerges ,
SimCity,  The_Sims, SimEarth, Earth_Simulator, www.messagetoeagle.com/livingearthsimulator.php,  Welt_am_Draht, The_Thirteenth_Floor

{"As for my own collaboration on adinkras, the path my colleagues and I have trod since the early 2000s has led me to conclude that codes play a previously unsuspected role in equations that possess the property of supersymmetry. This unsuspected connection suggests that these codes may be ubiquitous in nature, and could even be embedded in the essence of reality. If this is the case, we might have something in common with the Matrix science-fiction films, which depict a world where everything human beings experience is the product of a virtual-reality-generating computer network.

If that sounds crazy to you — well, you could be right. It is certainly possible to overstate mathematical links between different systems: as the physicist Eugene Wigner pointed out in 1960, just because a piece of mathematics is ubiquitous and appears in the description of several distinct systems does not necessarily mean that those systems are related to each other. The number pi, after all, occurs in the measurement of circles as well as in the measurement of population distributions. This does not mean that populations are related to circles.
Yet for a moment, let us imagine that this alternative Matrix-style world contains some theoretical physicists, and that one of them asks, "How could we discover whether we live inside a Matrix?". One answer might be "Try to detect the presence of codes in the laws that describe physics." I leave it to you to decide whether Wigner's warning should be applied to the theoretical physicists living in the Matrix — and to us. James Gates is a theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, US, e-mail gatess@wam.umd.edu "} http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2012/codes-for-reality/gates-symbolsofpower.shtml

The cosmic-computer-hypothesis 

Metaphorically, each galaxy is like its own BD or DVD. http://thefutureofthings.com/site/7895/galaxy-zoo.html

In ancient times the crystal-ball wasn't considered to be a form of augmented-reality. There was just a natural concept that cosmic information could be transmitted & perceived in the world.

1863 Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century

To The_Observer, reality is a big interactive recording of space & time. He & they are able to skip through time & occasionally do more than just observe. 
www.fringebloggers.com/explore/the-fringe-timeline

www.fringebloggers.com/fringe-4-22-brave-new-world-part-2-observations

Reality, VR and AR, etc.

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/1183686-7-weird-glitches-in-the-matrix
Essentially every religion implies that this world is part of some sort of cosmic construct.
http://www.infowars.com/will-vr-become-bigger-than-the-bible
Coincidence can usually be ignored or discarded by the less curious.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/10451983/Do-we-live-in-the-Matrix-Scientists-believe-they-may-have-answered-the-question.html
However, those that really observe & question the nature of reality are more likely to perceive synchronicity.
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/dec/09-do-we-live-in-the-matrix
2, 3 & 4D are just the basic levels of this multi-dimensional cosmic reality.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/2014/2-D-Hologram-20140826.html

http://www.simulation-argument.com/matrix2.html

http://news.discovery.com/space/are-we-living-in-a-computer-simulation-2-121216.htm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2216189/Do-live-Matrix-researchers-say-way-prove-do.html

http://io9.com/there-is-some-hope-that-we-arent-living-inside-a-comput-1605357671

Then within this cosmic construct, there is a real push to capture & transcend a persons consciousness.
http://io9.com/an-irreverent-guide-to-transhumanism-and-the-singularit-1678511853
Unfortunately, the end result might just be a digital copy of a persons mind & their physical data that's merged into an A.I. program.

A.R. vs. V.R.
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/5078/20140406/augmented-reality-vs-virtual-reality-what-are-the-differences-and-similarities.htm

http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/06/augmented-reality-vs-virtual-reality ,
http://www.nextgeninteractions.com/virtual-and-augmented-reality

http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/AI ,
http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Simulated_reality ,
http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/Matrix_betas

http://matrix.wikia.com/wiki/The_Source...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Code#Plot ,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkTrG-gpIzE ,
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/source-code-2011 ,
http://io9.com/5788795/duncan-jones-unravels-the-mysteries-behind-source-code

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.ca/search?q=A.I.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Source+Code

Alastair and The Sims...

Alastair_Sim was a human actor that stared in the Scrooge_(1951_film), in which he encountered a few sim like ghosts in his earthly reality. The concept of sentient entities or ghosts from a different frequency of the universe that can temporarily intersect and interact on this dimensional plane of existence, has been around since ancient times.

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost

https://www.ea.com/en-gb/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/news/ts4-ghosts

"A guide to all ghost powers and abilities in The Sims 4, including interactions with other sims and with objects." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgT8eaCsdg4 , https://www.youtube.com/c/PeteyPlaysIt/videos

So what if Alastair_Sim as the Scrooge character, was in a simulation story interacting with sim-ghosts? What if this world is part of some kind of a cosmic construct of reality? 

"The Sims series is part of the larger Sim series, started by SimCity in 1989."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims

The 3D characters & the ghosts are all sims in the computer game & program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_packs_for_The_Sims_3#Supernatural

The Sims & Ghosts 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2oI62NSurI

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-01-17-the-sims-4-ghosts--pla7007

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost Its all part of exploring the-simulation-hypothesis. 

Charles_Dickens was essentially writing about ghost-sims in the earth reality or simulation back in the 1840s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol#Plot 1843

A world where ghosts, vampires, monsters, tricksters and Jokers can pop in or out of this reality in an instance.

https://www.nashvillechatterclass.com/sims-patents-hint-at-ai-technology-being-used-in-the-game/53211

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine#Arthur_Koestler

From a cantankerous old man story to a kids story playing in a very high-tech sandbox or VR room. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story) 1950 

The_Illustrated_Man was published in 1951, the same year as the Scrooge movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man#The_Veldt Sort of like a Digital Sandbox_game in a VR room or the Holodeck in STAR+TREK. 

https://wikimedia.org/Holodeck

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holodeck , 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXcBGGQyHY , https://www.youtube.com/c/TrekCulture/videos

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Holodeck2.jpg (What if your life is a lemon? Then you might try to see if you can improve things.)

U2 performing Lemon in the Holodeck MATRIX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcx9F_FW2U

https://turingchurch.net/book-review-the-simulated-multiverse-by-rizwan-virk-e3cadd505d6d

There is a line in the movie, The_Thirteenth_Floor. Someone asks, how many worlds are in the simulation? 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2009/04/the-nature-of-reality-tnor.html

Elon+Musk: Are We Living in a Simulation?

"Among popular public thinkers advocating for the simulation hypothesis is Elon Musk who stated: if you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality“ before concluding “that its most likely we’re in a simulation. Elon Musk is known in the philosophical community to make "outrageous" claims, whether its about the advent of digital superintelligence, or in this case, according to some skeptics of the simulation hypothesis, Elon Musk exaggerates the probability that we might be living in a simulation. Another high-profile proponent to the hypothesis is famous astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, who said in an NBC news interview that the hypothesis is correct giving “better than 50-50 odds” and adding: I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none In a review of the literature on simulated realities, philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that although it is difficult to prove that we are living in a simulation, "It is nevertheless generally considered acceptable philosophy to question the reality of our own existence. A typical member of an advanced civilization would have a high probability of being among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we are typical, we should consider that we might be living in a simulation. Thus, the possibility that we are living in a simulation is greater than we might have supposed. Some hypotheses hold that if it is possible to simulate reality, then it is also possible to leave behind copies of everyone within these simulations. It has further been suggested that these simulated people may be conscious or sentient, although this idea belongs more in the realm of philosophy rather than scientific inquiry.  

Although the simulation hypothesis has sound philosophical arguments, before its taken seriously scientifically, proponents of the hypothesis have to produce experiments to support the idea with evidence." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3VPRow8xI4 , https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceTime24/videos

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-we-living-in-the-matrix-

https://evolutionnews.org/2019/04/mits-rizwan-virk-on-simulation-theory-aka-intelligent-design

Donald Hoffman Proves That We Live in a Simulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAfjsktMXu8

2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs , https://www.youtube.com/c/AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory/videos

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Did+Philip+K.+Dick+disclose+the+real+Matrix+in+1977

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Matrix+Resurrections

Digital Combat Simulator World https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoIiSS0lfL7aX4BtbC-YGQA

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=simulation 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alastair+and+The+Sims

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Sims Humanoids from clay to digital dolls. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Nature+Of+Reality

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis