Platonic Computation and the Dodleston Messages with Simon Duan

Dec 12, 2025

Simon Duan, a materials scientist and CEO of Metacomputics Labs, ventures into the intriguing realm of Platonic computation and the enigmatic Dodleston Messages. He explores how consciousness, mind, and matter could stem from a deeper reality. Delving into two-way communications from the past and future, Duan presents his model as a way to synthesize these messages over time. The conversation touches on higher selves, divine intelligence, and playful puzzles that provoke human growth, revealing a profound cosmological perspective on our existence.

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Dodleston Messages Began On A BBC Micro

The Dodleston episode began in the mid-1980s when a BBC microcomputer displayed unsolicited messages.
The messages included a 16th-century persona claiming to have lived in that house and used early modern English.

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Physical Signs And Early-English Messages

The case included physical poltergeist signs like reappearing footprints with six toes and unusual object balancing.
Codified early-English messages needed a specialist to translate, making fraud harder to allege.

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Mathematics Points To A Platonic Reality

Simon Duan frames mathematics and physics as evidence of a Platonic realm that is more real than physical space.
He argues modern science implicitly relies on nonphysical mathematical forms that exist outside space.

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Platonic Computation and the Dodleston Messages with Simon Duan

Simon Duan came from China to the United Kingdom in the 1980s, where he earned a PhD in materials science from Cambridge University. He is a past Vice President of the Chinese Parapsychology Association and the founder and CEO of Metacomputics Labs, which researches a postmaterialist paradigm unifying consciousness, mind, and matter. Duan developed the hypothesis known as Platonic computation, argued to provide the strongest available explanation for the controversial Dodleston Messages case, if the case is genuine.

Simon Duan discusses his hypothesis of Platonic computation, a postmaterialist model proposing that consciousness, mind, and matter emerge from a deeper non-physical realm of forms. He explains how this framework may illuminate the enigmatic Dodleston Messages, a decades-old case involving anomalous communications that appear to originate from both the past and the future. Duan explores how higher-level layers of reality, intelligence, and information processing could account for the extraordinary features of this controversial paranormal episode.

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(Recorded on November 16, 2025)

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