None of it is real -- The Matrix Revealed

From The Guardian of the UK:-

"I always knew," says Mrs Dorothy Jones, of Swansea.

I have always suspected it: this world we live in is merely a computerized mirror image of some other, secret, parallel world out there, which is controlled by aliens. We live in The Matrix.

And this psot is not real. It's all a bad dream.

And they are watching you.

[On the other hand, if this is all an illusion, who is having this headache?]
______________________________________________________https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/simulated-world-elon-musk-the-matrix?

Is our world a simulation? Why some scientists say it's more likely than not.

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Beware of IT as Metaphor

This is purported to be a conversation, in the run up to the 2003 US-Iraq War, of Douglas Feith and a US State Department official.

I am including it here because I am struck by the power of metaphors to seduce otherwise intelligent people. In this case the metaphor is from IT arena.



State Dept. Official: "Doug, after the smoke clears, what is the plan?"

Feith: "Think of Iraq as being like a computer. And think of Saddam as like a processor. We just take out the old processor, and put in a new one--Chalabi."

State Dept. Official: "Put in a new processor?"

Feith: "Yes! It will all be over in 6 weeks."

State Dept. Official: "You mean six months."

Feith: "No, six weeks. You'll see."

State Dept. Official: "Doug."

Feith: "Yes?"

State Dept. Official: "You're smoking crack, Doug."

Feith: "Oh, so you're disloyal to the President, are you?"