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VIRTUAL REALITY OR REAL

VIRTUALITY

Muhammad Awais Tahir


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Abstract ............................................................................................................................................................................... 3

1-Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 3

2-What is Virtuality? ....................................................................................................................................................... 3

3-What is Reality?.......................................................................................................................................................... 3

3-What is Virtual Reality? ......................................................................................................................................... 3

4-Immersion into a Virtual Environment ........................................................................................................ 4

5-Working of a Virtual Environment .................................................................................................................. 4

5.1 Technologies : ..................................................................................................................................................... 4

5.2 Plugging into the virtual World – Interface Devices ...................................................................... 5

5.2.1 Mock Cockpits ............................................................................................................................................... 5

5.2.2 Head Mounted Display............................................................................................................................... 5

5.2.3 Sensory Glove ................................................................................................................................................ 6

6-Applications of Virtual Reality........................................................................................................................... 6

7-Dreaming : Virtual Environment ...................................................................................................................... 6

8-Real Virtuality:............................................................................................................................................................ 7

9-A Trick of Senses: ...................................................................................................................................................... 7

10-Experimental Evidences- Artificial Senses: ............................................................................................. 7

11-The Reality of Everything is Virtuality ....................................................................................................... 8

12-The World in Our Brain ...................................................................................................................................... 9

13-The World of Perceptions ................................................................................................................................ 10

14-Holy Quran- as a Proof : .................................................................................................................................... 11

15-A Chain of VRs......................................................................................................................................................... 11

16-The Ultimate Hologram .................................................................................................................................... 12


VIRTUAL REALITY OR REAL
VIRTUALITY (HOLOGRAPHIC LIFE)
Muhammad Awais Tahir

Military College of Signals

real thing might not be that much "real"


ABSTRACT and many hidden things might be more
"real" than we deem them to be.

We live in a Hologram. All the


information we have about the world we
live in is conveyed to us by our five
2-WHAT IS VIRTUALITY?
senses. The world we know consists of
what our eye sees, our hand feels, our ―Virtuality" refers to the seeming of
nose smells, our tongue tastes, and our anything, as opposed to its reality.
ears hear. We never think that the Everything has a reality and a virtuality.
"external" world can be other than what Nelson divides virtuality into two parts:
our senses present to us, since we've conceptual structure and feel. In every
been depending on only those senses field these have different roles. The
since the day we were born. However, conceptual structure of all cars is the
modern scientific research in many same, but the conceptual structure of
different fields points to a wholly every movie is different. The reality of a
different understanding, creating serious car is important, but the reality of a
doubt about our senses and the world movie is unimportant-- how a shot was
we perceive with them. This approach's made is of interest only to movie buffs.
starting point is the notion that any
"external world" is only a response
created in our brain by electrical signals.
The red hue of an apple, the hardness of 3-WHAT IS REALITY?
wood, your mother, father, your family,
and everything that you own—your
house, your job,—and even the lines of Reality in everyday usage means "the
this article, are composed of electrical state of things as they actually
signals only. exist."[1] The term reality, in its widest
sense, includes everything that is,
whether it is observable or
comprehensible. Reality in this sense
1-INTRODUCTION may include both being and nothingness,
whereas existence is often restricted to
After the evolution in Metaphysics and being.
research on the scientific verses in the
Holy Quran Virtual Reality is no more a
mere technology but it is a concept: a
concept which has a deep influence on 3-WHAT IS VIRTUAL
our lives. In this age of materialism this REALITY?
concept tells us what really lies behind
matter. Many things out there in the
external world which seem to us are the
"Virtual Reality: A computer system 4-IMMERSION INTO A
used to create an artificial world in which
the user has the impression of being in VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENT
that world and with the ability to
navigate through the world and
manipulate objects in the world."[2] "Virtual Reality allows you to explore a
Virtual Reality (VR) is stimulating the computer generated world by actually
user‘s senses in such a way that a being in it"[3]
computer generated world is We have all experienced some form of
experienced as real. In order to get a VR. Deep thinking is also a type of
true illusion of reality, it is essential for virtual reality. Watching a movie is a
the user to have influence on this virtual low-grade VR experience. For a couple
environment. By the use of computer of hours we immerse ourselves in an
graphics systems, in combination with artificial environment, even though we
various display and interface devices keep in mind that the movie is not
VR provides the effect of immersion reality. The Highest grade VR experience
in the interactive 3D computer- which we undergo daily is Dream.
generated environment. VR has been Virtual environments are more
proposed as a technological believable when they engage all our
breakthrough that holds the power of senses. Take cabin rides in amusement
facilitating learning, simulation and parks as an example. People in the
interactive learning and gaming. cabin watch a movie of a virtual roller
coaster ride through some hair-raising
landscape. The jerking, shunting, and
rolling motion of the cabin makes the
experience seem much more real than
the view from a passive seat at the
movies.
The key to sophisticated VR is
interactivity. Visitors to a VR
environment not only have to be able to
navigate their way around, they also
need to be able to influence the course
FIGURE 1 INTERACTING WITH A VIRTUAL of events in their environment.
ENVIRONMENT

To put it simply, virtual reality is the


projection of computer-generated three- 5-WORKING OF A VIRTUAL
dimensional images that appear to be ENVIRONMENT
real with the aid of some devices. This
technology, with its diverse range of
applications, is known as "virtual
reality," "virtual world," or "virtual
environment." Its most important 5.1 TECHNOLOGIES:
feature is that by the use of some
purposely constructed devices, it
misleads the person experiencing it into Four technologies are crucial for VR:[4]
believing the experience to be real. In
recent years, the word "immersive'' has the visual (and aural and
begun to be used in front of the term haptic) displays that immerse
"virtual reality," reflecting the way that the user in the virtual world and
witnesses are literally immersed in the that blockout contradictory
experience. sensory impressions from the real
world
the graphics rendering system
that generates, at 20to 30 frames
per second, the ever-changing information to a human. Just as a video
images; interface allows the user to see a
the tracking system that computer generated scene, a haptic
continually reports the position interface permits the user to ―feel‖ it.
and orientation of the user‘s head Haptic displays generate forces and
and limbs; motions, which are sensed through both
and the database construction touch and kinesthesia.
and maintenance system for
building and maintaining detailed
and realistic models of the virtual
world. 5.2 PLUGGING INTO THE
VIRTUAL WORLD – INTERFACE
Four auxiliary technologies are DEVICES
important, but not nearly so crucial:

synthesized sound, displayed to To enter a virtual world, a visitor must


the ears, including directional use special interface devices that
sound and simulated sound transmit the sight, sounds and
fields; sensations of the artificial world. These
display of synthesized forces and devices also need to transmit
other haptic sensations to the information about what the user is doing
kinesthetic senses; back to the computer controlling the
devices, such as tracked gloves virtual environment.
with pushbuttons, by which the
user specifies interactions with 5.2.1 MOCK COCKPITS Commercial flight
virtual objects; simulators employ a number of interface
and interaction techniques that devices. The simulators consist of mock
substitute for the real cockpits fitted out with real instruments,
interactions possible with the mounted on motion platforms that pitch
physical world. and roll. Thousands of pilots have been
trained in skills such as night flying,
All that has to be done in order to raise without the cost or hazards of using real
the illusion of being in or acting upon a aircraft.
virtual world or virtual environment, is
providing a simulation of the interaction
between human being and this real
5.2.2 HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY Another
interface device is a special helmet
environment. This simulation is -at least-
known as a head-mounted display
partly attained by means of Virtual
(HMD). In front of each eye is a small
Reality interfaces connected to a
screen made from a liquid-crystal
computer. Basically, a VR interface
display – each screen presents a slightly
stimulates one of the human senses.
different view to create a three-
This has not necessarily got to be as
dimensional effect of depth for the
complex as it sounds, e.g. a PC-monitor
viewer. The HMD also contains a motion
stimulates the visual sense; a
tracker to monitor both the orientation
headphone stimulates the auditory
of the head and the direction in which
sense. Consequently, these two kinds of
the user is looking. Using information
interfaces are widely employed as Virtual
from the HMD, the computer calculates
Reality interfaces.
images of the virtual world to match the
With the gustatory and olfactory sense
direction in which the user is looking,
left out of consideration, the hardest
and displays these images on the small
part of simulating the interaction
display screens. The computer has to
between human being and real
generate new images at least ten times
environment is stimulating the tactile
a second so that the view does not
sense and the proprioceptive system
appear too jerky and does not lag
(kinesthetic sense). This can be done
behind the user's movements.
using a so-called haptic interface. This is
a device configured to provide haptic
5.2.3 SENSORY GLOVE An interface architects take people on a virtual
device known as the sensory glove can tour of their dream home before
create a realistic sense of touch in the finalising the design;
virtual world. The glove transmits people attend conferences and
information such as the position of the social events without having to
user‘s hand and movement of each board a plane; and
finger to the computer, which then chat rooms mean much more
instructs the glove to create the than just email notice boards.
appropriate sensation, such as tapping a Twenty years ago, few imagined that
finger on a hard surface or picking up a personal computers would soon be found
glass of water. With increasing computer in almost every home, classroom and
power, the sensory glove could office. In twenty years' time, virtual
eventually be developed into a body suit reality may be just as central to our
to create a sense of touch over the lives. Immersing ourselves in a virtual
whole body. environment of our choice may become
as commonplace as turning on the TV.

6-APPLICATIONS OF
7-DREAMING: VIRTUAL
VIRTUAL REALITY
ENVIRONMENT
There are Numerous Applications of
Virtual Reality which ranger from flight
simulations to action games. Almost If we think how "realistic" the dreams
everything is being brought into virtual are that we see while asleep, which in
environment because there are no REAL that way are no different in their realism
harms in the Virtual Environment. An from the moment he awakes. For
injury in the virtual environment us just instance, despite one person's body lying
like an injury in the dreams. There are on the bed, in dream he went on
no limits to virtuality. As computer business trips, met new people, and had
processing power increases and even lunch while listening to music. He
more realistic graphics are developed, enjoyed the taste of his meal, danced to
the simulated environments produced by the music, became excited because of
virtual reality systems will become even the incidents that happened, became
more believable. The technology happy and unhappy, was afraid and felt
developed from military uses of virtual tired. He could even have driven a
reality is finding application in many vehicle that he had not previously driven
walks of life. until that day and did not even know
how to drive. Although his body had
been lying still in bed, his eyes shut, he
saw different images from those of the
place where he was. This means that
what saw was not the eyes. Although
the room in which he was lying was
empty, he heard voices. Thus what
heard was not the ears. Everything had
taken place in his brain. Still, everything
FIGURE 2 VIRTUAL GAMING was very realistic as if every image had
an original form. What is it, then, that
although none of them has originals in
the external world, forms such realistic
For example, images in the brain? In short these are
medical students operate on virtual images that someone is
virtual patients rather than real programming into us that seem to us be
people; the real thing.
‫الَّتِي قَضًَ عَلَِيهَا اْل َوىِتَ وَيُرِسِلُ الُْؤخِرَي إِلًَ َأجَلٍ هُسَنِّي‬ without any such thing actually existing
in the environment Similarly in the real
َ‫إِىَّ فِي ذَلِلَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّ َقىِمٍ يَتَ َفكَّرُوى اللَّهُ يََتىَفًَّ الْؤًَ ُفسَ ِحني‬ world we use hands instead of sensory
gloves and eyes instead of the Head Unit
ُ‫َهىِِتهَا وَالَّتِي َلنِ َت ُوتِ فِي هٌََا ِههَا فَُيوِسِل‬ Displays. Function of both is almost the
َ same.

―Allah takes the souls at the time of their


death, and those that die not during
their sleep; then He withholds those on 10-EXPERIMENTAL
whom He has passed the decree of
death and sends the others back till an EVIDENCES- ARTIFICIAL
appointed term; most surely there are SENSES:
signs in this for a people who reflect.‖[5]

An article (March 11, 2002 issue, TIME


MAGAZINE published an article entitled
8-REAL VIRTUALITY:
"The Body Electric,") reported that
scientists melded computer chips with
patients' nervous systems to treat
We spend time in a virtual environment permanent damage to their senses.
daily and we are made to feel that what
is happening is actually real. This
experience urges an inquiring mind to
think what if the real life is as virtual as
the dream is. To get answers to these
questions many researches were done to
find the real essence of matter and
finding were really interesting. What we
experience daily is no more than a
virtual experience. We are made to feel
FIGURE 3 THE BODY ELECTRIC- AN ARTICLE
the things to prove whose real existence IN TIME’S MAGAZINES MARCH 11, 2002 ISSUE
would be a difficult task. Although life of
this earth is like a perfect virtual reality A Danish patient by the name of Brian
though we deem it to be the real thing Holgersen was paralyzed from the neck
and the most sympathetic term that I down, except for very limited movement
could find for it was Real Virtuality. in his shoulders, left arm and left hand.
Whatever is out there is just like a As is known, such paralysis is caused by
virtual environment; but just because it damage to the spinal cord in the neck
seems real to us I coined the term Real and back. The nerves are damaged or
Virtuality for it. blocked, disabling neural traffic between
brain and muscles, and cutting off
communication between the nerves that
transmit signals back and forth from the
9-A TRICK OF SENSES: body to the brain. With this patient, the
aim was to bridge his spinal cord's
damaged area with an implant, letting
Its all a trick of senses. The rationale of signals from the brain bring back a little
any virtual reality system is based on movement to the arms and legs.
our five human senses. For instance, They used a system designed to recover
when the user puts on a special glove, basic functions of the left hand, like
devices inside transmit signals to the grasping, holding and releasing objects.
fingertips. When these signals are In an operation, eight small coin-sized
relayed to and interpreted by the brain, flexible cuff electrodes were implanted
the user experiences the sensation of into the muscles responsible for those
touching a silk fabric or ornate vase, movements in the patient's upper left
complete with all of its surface details arm, forearm and shoulder. Later,
ultrathin wires connected these greater the resolution quality of the
electrodes to a stimulator—a kind of image.
pacemaker for the nervous system— These incidents clearly show that all we
implanted in his chest. The stimulator feel is based on our senses and also we
was in turn linked to a position-sensing see how the gap between reality and
unit attached to Holgersen's right virtuality is being bridged by the advent
shoulder—over which he retains some of new sciences. And most importantly
motor control. they demonstrate the fact : The external
Now, when the patient wants to pick up world is a copied imageof what we watch
a glass, he moves his right shoulder in our minds.
upward. This movement sends an This is just like a virtual reality but the
electrical signal from the position sensor, difference is that the virtual image is
worn under his clothing, to the being formed inside the brain. The
stimulator in his chest, which amplifies it virtual smell is felt in the brain. The
and passes it along to appropriate virtual pain is felt in the brain. …
muscles in his arm and hand. They
contract in response, and his left hand
closes. When he wants to release the
glass, he moves his right shoulder 11-THE REALITY OF
downward, and his left hand opens. EVERYTHING IS
The University of Louvain in Brussels
used a similar application of technology VIRTUALITY
in relation to eyesight. A patient's rod
and cone cells had degenerated, causing
the retina to become insensitive to light. Michael Posner, a psychologist, and
Consequently, she became blind. An Marcus Raichle, a neurologist from
electrode implanted around her right Washington University comment on the
optic nerve enabled her to regain partial issue of how sight and other senses
sight. occur, even in the absence of an
In this patient's case, the electrode was external stimulus:
connected to a stimulator placed inside a
cavity in the skull. A video camera, worn "Open your eyes, and a scene fills
on a cap, transmitted the images to the your view effortlessly; close your eyes
stimulator in the form of radio signals, and think of that scene, and you can
bypassing the damaged rod and cone summon an image of it, certainly not as
cells, and delivered the electric signals vivid, solid, or complete as a scene you
directly to the optic nerve. The brain's see with your eyes, but still one that
visual cortex reassembled these signals captures the scene's essential
to form an image. The patient's characteristics.
experience is comparable to watching a In both cases, an image of the scene
miniature stadium billboard, but the is formed in the mind. The image formed
quality is nevertheless sufficient to prove from actual visual experiences is called a
that this system is viable. "percept" to distinguish it from an
imagined image. The percept is formed
This system is called a "Microsystem- as the result of light hitting the retina
based Visual Prosthesis", a device and sending signals that are further
permanently implanted into the patient's processed in the brain. But how are we
head. But to make it all work, the able to create an image when no light is
patient needs to go to a specially hitting the retina to send such
designated room in the University of signals?"[6]
Louvain and wear what looks like a badly
damaged bathing cap. The bathing cap
is made of plastic with a standard video
camera installed on its front. The more
pixels there are to form an image on the
screen, the greater the number of
electrical stimulations; therefore, the
The image of the car is formed in
the visual center of human brain,
which is only a few centimeter
squares in size. If the image of a
few- meter-long car fits into that
tiny area, then should the visual
center not be at least the size of
the car?
Respectively, if the visual center
of the brain were several meters
in size, should the human brain
not be in great dimensions in
accordance to the size of this
FIGURE 4 MICHAEL TALBOT, THE AUTHOR OF area?
THE BOOK, THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE, If the human brain had covered
STATES THAT THE UNIVERSE IS A HOLOGRAM such a vast area, should the
CONSISTING OF ORDERS LAID ON TOP OF human body not be kilometers
ANOTHER AND ADDS THAT THE HUMAN MIND long in direct proportion to its
INTERACTS WITH THIS HOLOGRAM brain?
Here we speak of a person seeing
just a car. Let us consider the
same situation for some
12-THE WORLD IN OUR
BRAIN

Brain is the CPU which is controlling this


Vritual environment for us. Whatever we
feel is because of some happenings in
the brain. Here we deal only with the FIGURE 5 DOES THE VALLEY REALLY EXIST
sense of sight to grasp the reality of the
outside world.
The light coming from an object is One who looks at a valley extending
transformed into electrical signals by the kilometers away. If this person claims to
cells in the eye and then transmitted to see the actual valley, then the visual
the center of vision in the brain. And the center of his brain should be covering at
electrical signals there are turned into an least an area of several kilometers.
image. For example you actually see this Accordingly, his brain, internal organs,
message in your brain. Brain is a piece arms and legs should have gigantic
of flesh composed of lipids, proteins and dimensions.
other various molecules. No light Since this is not the case, is it not
penetrates the skull, which mean the irrational to claim that there exists
brain is entirely in darkness but it is fully outside a car of several meters long and
capable of forming illuminated images. a valley stretching far and wide and that
The image is formed inside a miniature man deals with the originals of these
spot in the brain and we cannot prove materials?
that what we are seeing does exist
outside or not. Proving the existence of The person's own body is also included
the external world is a huge task. in the images a person see. So, a person
only sees the copy of his own body. This
means every person all through his life
lives in the cave in his skull where he
never knows what is outside, including
Suppose there is a Car outside. If the his own body and other objects . What is
car is really out there than how can we more appropriate to say : Is the person
answer the following questions : inside the room or is the room inside the
person. What we are see ,feel, smell ant ―By sight I have the ideas of light and
taste are the real things or only the colours, with their several degrees and
virtual happening in the brain. variations. By touch I perceive hard and
soft, heat and cold, motion and
resistance... Smelling furnishes me with
odours; the palate with tastes; and
hearing conveys sounds... And as
several of these are observed to
accompany each other, they come to be
marked by one name, and so to be
reputed as one thing. Thus, for example,
a certain colour, taste, smell, figure and
consistence having been observed to go
together, are accounted one distinct
thing, signified by the name apple; other
FIGURE 6 LIVING IN THE BRAIN collections of ideas constitute a stone, a
tree, a book, and the like sensible
If we are living an illusion that has the
things...‖[7]
possibility of not having any reality
outside, then we may be existing in a
very different place.
Let us imagine 5 different people who
look at a garden of roses. Since every
one of these people see the rose garden
in his own brain, then aren't there 5
different rose gardens in the brains of
every one of the 5 people? Is the color
red that each one sees the same with
the other's perception of red? Everyone
is seeing a different rose, everyone is FIGURE 8 THE NEW SCIENTIST’S APRIL
smelling a different rose formed within 27,2002 ISSUE WITH ITS COVER STORY ,
their brains. If someone is color blind “HOLLOW UNIVERSE”
and sees the rose green by no means
can we prove to him that how it Throughout our lives we live with copy-
‗actually‘ looks like. What he perceives is perceptions which are shown to us.
actual for him. However, these copies are so realistic
that we never realize that they are
copies. For example, lift your head and
have a look around the room. You see
that you are in a room full of furniture.
When you touch the arms of the
armchair in which you are sitting, you
feel the hardness of it as if you are really
touching the original of it. The reality of
these images shown to you, and the
excellent artistry in the creation of these
images are sufficient to convince you
FIGURE 7 WHICH ROSE IS REAL and billions of other people that the
images are "material". Even though
most people have read that every
13-THE WORLD OF sensation relating to the world is formed
in their brains, since it is taught in high
PERCEPTIONS school biology classes, the images are so
convincing that they have difficulty
believing that these images are only
George Berkeley, expresses this truth in fantasies in their brain. The reason for
his work A Treatise Concerning the this is that each image is created very
Principles of Human Knowledge:
realistically and perfected to an art. ْ‫َفكَشَفٌَْا عٌَلَ غِطَا َءكَ فَبَصَ ُركَ الَْيىِمَ َحدِيد‬
Philosopher G. Berkeley clearly
expressed that our perceptions exist ―But now We have removed from you
only in our minds and that we would be your veil, so your sight today is sharp‖
mistaken in automatically assuming that [11]
they exist in the outside world:
The most important of those Islamic
We believe in the existence of scholars who explained the true nature
objects just because we see and touch of matter was Imam Rabbani, who has
them, and they are reflected to us by been widely respected in the Islamic
our perceptions. However, our world for hundreds of years and is seen
perceptions are only ideas in our mind. as "the greatest reformer of the 10th
Thus, objects we captivate by century according to the Muslim
perceptions are nothing but ideas, and calendar." In his book Letters, Imam
these ideas are essentially in nowhere Rabbani provides a detailed commentary
but our mind… Since all these exist only on this very subject. In one of his
in the mind, then it means that we are letters, Imam Rabbani says that God
beguiled by deceptions when we imagine created the entire universe at the level
the universe and things to have an of perception:
existence outside the mind. So, none of
the surrounding things have an "God's creation is at the sphere of
existence out of our mind.[8] senses and perceptions." This means
"God's creation is at such a sphere that
at that sphere, there is no permanency
or existence for objects apart from
14-HOLY QURAN- AS A senses and perceptions." [12]
PROOF:
15-A CHAIN OF VRS
In Numerous places the Quran says that
the life of the world is a deception.
‫فَلَا تَغُرًََّّ ُكنُ الْحَيَاةُ الدًُِّيَا‬ We have reached the fact that this life is
also virtual and in this virtual life we are
―Therefore let not this world's life
establishing further virtual realities by
deceive you‖[9]
the use of technology or by our
imagination and thinking in our brains.
ِ‫وَها الْحَيَاةُ الدًُِّيَا إِالَّ هَتَاعُ الْغُرُور‬ Imagine a VR with in a VR. A dream
―And the life of this world is nothing but within a dream. A virtual game in a
a provision of vanities‖[10] virtual world itself. The virtual
experiences we get by the use of
The Holy Quran is telling is that the life technology also seem so real that it
of this world is an illusion. Its a Virtual becomes difficult for the brain to judge
Reality or a real virtuality which might in future which was a real experience
not have any real existence. Its a mind and which was a virtual one.
game. We can prove that the earth is in
our brains but we can never prove that
there is an external world too. Keep the
concept of thinking and dreaming in your
mind. When we open our eyes we come
to know that it was all our imagination
or it was all a dream. Similarly, when
our eyes close from this world our REAL
eyes would open and we will come to
know of this deceptive illusion. This fact
is also illustrated in the holy Quran
[5] Surah Zumar Chapter number 39 Verse
no 42

[6] Michael I. Posner, Marcus E. Raichle,


Images of Mind, Scientific American Library,
New York, 1999, p. 88

[7] George Berkeley, A Treatise Concerning


the Principles of Human Knowledge, 1710,
Works of George Berkeley, vol. I, ed. A.
Fraser, Oxford, 1871 p. 35-36

FIGURE 9 VR WITHIN A VR [8] George Politzer, Principes Fondamentaux


de Philosophie, Editions Sociales, Paris, 1954,
VR website brought up an important pp. 38-39-44
research in this regard :
Virtual experiences improved people's [9] Surah Luqman Chapter no 31 Verse No
memories of the camera's functions, it 33
also increased false positives -- that is,
[10] Surah Ale Imran Chapter no 3 Verse no
more people believed it could do things
185
that it couldn't do.
[11] Surah Qaaf Chapter no 50 Verse no 22

[12]İmam Rabbani, Letters of Rabbani, Vol


16-THE ULTIMATE II, 357. Letter, p. 163
HOLOGRAM [13] Surah Rum Chapter no 30 Verse no 7

Imagine a holographic world in front of


you. This world is no different; just that
the hologram is in your mind. You are
living in the virtual world in your mind
and even if there is an external world
out there you can never prove it.
‫يَعَِلوُىىَ ظَاهِرّا هِّيَ الْحَيَاةِ الدًُِّيَا‬
―They know (only) the outward of this
world's life‖[13]

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