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Maybe its not an alternate reality but a Matrix like VR Experiment


Any thoughts?

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That would tie in with PK Dick's own views. The Matrix is basically a rip off of his ideas. I read that Dick had an idea for a sequel which included his Valis concept which would indeed have all of this happening in the "Matrix".

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It would certainly explain a lot. Especially how easily it is for the Japanese Trade Minister to cross over into an alternate reality without the use of any equipment whatsoever.

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I think it's sort of like that, except in the Matrix, there is the objectively real world and the ones that are illusions.

The most authentic answer in the spirit of PKD would be that there is no concrete reality, just consciousness and an infinite number of possibilities that are "real" as inter-subjective experiences shared by those in them.

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