a matrix
December 2008 
Vision
Michael
My own vision - as a child - was of a future time when we would be able to personally experience a simulation of the reality such that we would be unable to tell the difference between the simulation and the reality. My vision, at that time, identified more with the" brown-stone" buildings of New York and the digital television watch of Dick Tracey than the "1984" scenario painted by George Orwell. Later in life when questioned as to my thoughts on "the simulation of the reality" and of a possible definition thereof - I often retorted that, by use of the ‘ideal system', "one would be able to jump off the white cliffs of Dover and walk away after the experience, without a scratch, but being a completely different person as a result of the experience." They all replied, as do some today, that I was in need of a frontal lobotomy. However, my speaker's podium experience of "virtual realities" in San Francisco in 1989 proved to me at least that I needn't go into hospital yet and that that particular experience has indeed spurred me on since to even higher levels of expectancy.
Imagination NOT invention is the supreme master of ART as of LIFE
Joseph Conrad
Man’s only limitation, within reason, lies in the development and use of his imagination. He has not yet reached the apex of development in the use of his imaginative faculty. He has merely discovered that he has an imagination, and has commenced to use it in a very elementary way.
Napoleon Hill
"Imagination alone can give us a vision of the future."
"Simulations of the reality allow us all to explore that vision."
But no man is an island and turning this vision into a reality has always been dependent on a willingness to search for all the component parts, to communicate and collaborate with the multitude of people destined to provide the component parts and then to "glue" the whole together into a cohesive and meaningful solution.
A solution which addresses the very real issues with which we are all faced in our daily lives.
As a result of determination, persistence and perseverance -
"We should not be trying to make institutions work faster, but to help people to discover imaginative new ways to communicate and work together better. We need to encourage our global society to be able to turn information into knowledge... knowledge into ideas... and ideas into sharing wealth"
the real key to understanding, all things, IS within ourselves.
Once we understand ourselves we must then encourage others to seek a similar level of understanding as a result of....
Co-existence - Cooperation - Collaboration
... in order that a new model & method of wealth creation, mutually beneficial to all, can be established.
"Just as the sun is at the centre of our solar system, so too must the mind of wisdom be the centre of our diverse personalities. If our minds are strong, then the various parts of our lives will be held firmly to their proper courses, and there will be no chance of deviation."
I absolutely believe that Zaadz can provide the most appropriate environment and foundation / development platform for the establishment of a mechanism by which this can happen ..... initially in the role of gate-keeper to a matrix
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Cool. You were a very intelligent child.
Our imagination is the engine of co-creation! Imagination not only gives us a vision of the future… imagination allows us to design & co-create the future, our future!
Thank you both for your comments - and you wouldn't like to know how much it cost me to get hold of a first day copy of the “What the bleep .. ” DVD here in the UK. Even a lot of Ken's, Andrew's & Don's DVDs are still difficult and expensive to get your hands on.
” The transcendent - immanent paradox will be at the heart of the new paradigm ” - comes to mind seeing Matthew with Ken - and in my own words …. the possibilities will be endless beyond those which are established at thia point of the evolution of consciousness namely … the likes of the mortar that holds the bricks together or more poetically the paper on which the figure/etching is drawn or more poignantly the wire that keeps the holes together that form the cage to enclose the rabbit … before it disappears down the “hole”
Very interesting blog… I find your idea of simulation very interesting. The question is: what is the difference between simulation and reality? Your background is heavily into computers so I presume by simulation you have in mind some sort of computer simulation? I see a fundamental difference between computer simulations and imagination… the first is a true simulation whereas the second may have enough depth (because a mind is simulating it) for it to be called a reality in its own right? So from a computing point of view reality and simulation are separte and the matrix is a computer simulation as in the film The Matrix. And from a “you create your own reality” / mind point of view, there is no difference between simulations and “reality”… they are all just different realities. Nice comment on Zaadz. I see Zaadz as a beginning, but as soon as one portal holds “the key” I think we have a problem. Zaadz is just one of the up-and-coming mini-matrices that humanity is choosing to express at this time? Nice imagery regarding the mind of wisdom as the centre of our diverse personalities. Of course it assumes that wisdom does not itself have diversity. Do you think that is the case? I think probably… but not sure. Thank you for a thought-provoking post!
Never visited this place ubtil this moment and must look at it further, so much inspiration - thanks u Michael
As a long time “watcher” of the actvities of thefuturelaboratory - which uses William Gibson's words - ’The future has already happened, it’s just not very well distributed’ - as an overview strap-line - I am enamoured with their latest publication in the context of ALL that we are dedicated to achieving @zaadz.