Since everything was united at the Big Bang everything is still united. This means that the whole universe we perceive, though, those separate hallways you were all creating as you came in here have nothing to do with reality at all. They just show how the evolution of a primate nervous system into a semi-civilized state stacks incoming signals into that kind of space. The real reality, according to the hidden variable theory, is timeless and spaceless. So any time you perceive a separation in space or an interval in time you are hallucinating. And that's just what the Buddha said. That's what Plato said. That’s what George Barkley, the Irish philosopher, said.
Guest speaker: Robert Anton Wilson
PROGRAM NOTES:
Date this lecture was recorded: February 1982
[NOTE: All quotations are by Robert Anton Wilson.]
"The belief in certitude, I suspect, is a primate habit."
"One thing I want to make absolutely clear is that almost all pessimism results from watching what the government is doing. . . . because the government is the last place that important change is registered. And so if you're looking at the government you're looking at the past."
"Certitude only belongs to those people who own just one encyclopedia."
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