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The Dream We Cannot Wake From: An Ancient Cosmology and a Modern Theory of Reality
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ISBN13: 9798181638860
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Nick Bostrom's foundational paper on simulation theory does not cite the Vishnu Purana.
Neither does Max Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe, nor David Chalmers' four-hundred-page Reality+. For thirty years, the modern debate over whether we are living inside a simulation has proceeded as though no one had ever asked the question before.
Neither does Max Tegmark's Our Mathematical Universe, nor David Chalmers' four-hundred-page Reality+. For thirty years, the modern debate over whether we are living inside a simulation has proceeded as though no one had ever asked the question before.
Someone had. Two thousand years before Silicon Valley wondered whether reality is rendered, an Indian cosmological tradition described a universe dreamed into being by a single sleeping consciousness - Vishnu - complete with cosmic time scales that line up disturbingly well with modern physics, a built-in mechanism of illusion, and a creator who periodically enters his own creation to patch it.
Inside this book:
The Dream We Cannot Wake From is a short, sharp work of literary nonfiction - under sixty pages - for anyone who has ever wondered, even for a moment, whether the world is more constructed than it appears.
About the author: Rahul Sharma was raised inside this cosmology in 1990s India and trained as an engineer. He wrote the book he went looking for and couldn't find.
Inside this book:
- Why the simulation question has suddenly become urgent - and how physics, computing, and AI converged to make it so
- The Western physicists who looked East: Schrödinger and the Upanishads, Oppenheimer and the Bhagavad Gita, Tesla and Vivekananda
- Vishnu, Brahma, and Shiva as the dreamer, the renderer, and the dissolution of the dream
- Maya as the operating system of the dream - and the avatars as interventions from outside it
- The Vishwaroopam: the passage in the Bhagavad Gita that reads like a glimpse of source code
- A clear-eyed look at where the comparison holds - and where it honestly doesn't
The Dream We Cannot Wake From is a short, sharp work of literary nonfiction - under sixty pages - for anyone who has ever wondered, even for a moment, whether the world is more constructed than it appears.
About the author: Rahul Sharma was raised inside this cosmology in 1990s India and trained as an engineer. He wrote the book he went looking for and couldn't find.
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