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To: Katelew who wrote (253026)	6/17/2014 1:33:40 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540950

I don't watch Wormhole, but the "Row, row, row your boat, life is but a dream" theory was around before Matrix. Feels real enuf to me. - First published July 17th 2013, 2:26 pm Perhaps our human senses are deceiving us — maybe existence is an illusion, and reality isn't real. The idea that everything we know is merely a construction of our minds is investigated in the next episode of the Science Channel program "Through the Wormhole," hosted by Morgan Freeman. The episode premieres Wednesday at 10 p.m. EDT. "What is real?" Freeman asks in the show. "How can we be certain that the universe around us actually exists? And how can we know that the world we see matches what anyone else experiences?" nbcnews.com

To: Katelew who wrote (253026)	6/17/2014 12:51:11 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 540950

Kate, I'm an agnostic, so I admit that I just don't know. Speculating, I think it's just as likely, perhaps more so, that we are an experiment in creating intelligent beings by advanced extraterrestrial aliens. Such as depicted in the movie "Prometheus". I feel they are more likely to exist than an omniscient, omnipresent "God". It's so likely, that we'll soon be doing it ourselves. Probably with monkeys, dogs, cats and dolphins.