Is the Universe a Consciousness-created VR Simulation? | Bernard Haisch

Is the Universe a Vast, Consciousness-created Virtual Reality Simulation? Bernard Haisch Two luminaries of 20th century astrophysics were Sir James Jeans and Sir Arthur Eddington. Both took seriously the view that there is more to reality than the physical universe and more to consciousness than simply brain activity. In his Science and the Unseen World (1929) Eddington speculated about a spiritual world and that “conscious is not wholly, nor even primarily a device for receiving sense impressions.“ Jeans also speculated on the existence of a universal mind and a non-mechanical reality, writing in his The Mysterious Universe (1932) “Š the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.“ In his book QED Feynman discusses the situation of photons being partially transmitted and partially reflected by a sheet of glass: reflection amounting to four percent. In other words one out of every 25 photons will be reflected on average, and this hol