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Comments From Some Scientists and Thinkers Asked
About The Nature Of Matter

Many thanks for your e-mail and its most interesting contents. I am not
a scientist, but I found your questions very interesting. I cannot give any
scientific answers to your questions but I must say that I learnt a lot by reading
them. Thank you for writing and I will share your questions with some friends
in the sciences to see what answers they will give. Best wishes and, again, than

you for writing. Kofi Opoku

All of your questions and observations are insightful and right on
target! These are old questions of course, but to this day they are not fully
resolved. In fact modern neuroscience and psychology and even philosophy
would be much advanced if their researchers were as concerned about these
questions as you are. Your question number 13 is also right on target (Question
number 13. Some people are incredibly afraid when these topics are discussed?
What do you think the reason for this may be?) The answer is that when you
see the world correctly, the way you describe it, it is a very very frightening
prospect. But the truth is always worth discovering, even if it is a frightening

truth. Steve Lehar
You ask a number of interesting questions that have troubled

philosophers for centuries. Certainly we could be living in a virtual world
inside some supercomputer, and never know the difference, as in the movies
Tron or The Matrix, but as long as the "laws of nature", which could be part of
the programming, remain stable, and we can't tell the difference, it doesn't
make a difference. Naturally, many people are afraid of thoughts of this kind
because they threaten their comfortable worldviews. Jon Roland (President
and CEO of the Vanguard Research Institute)

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