EVEN WHEN THEY MAKE UP NONSENSE JUST TO BE PROVOCATIVE...:

At NYC sci fest, asking ‘What if we’re holograms?’ (SAMANTHA GROSS, 05/29/10, AP)

Brian Greene works in a world where scientific reasoning rules all and imagination leads to the most unlikely truths.

Greene and other “string theorists” are exploring a possible scenario in which people and the world around us are actually a 3-D holographic projection of two-dimensional data that exists outside the accessible universe. [...]

Greene’s attempt to explain where our consciousness might reside, if we are indeed simply projections, is intriguing and perhaps less than comforting:

“It’s there, too,” he says. “Consciousness is nothing but the physical processes taking place in the brain. … Consciousness is just another interaction of particles.”

...they're still stuck on their faith in the physical world.

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 29, 2010 4:14 PM