Hi Paul,

I appreciate your article. Thanks for writing it. I totally agree with you. I can add to your idea a bit. I've got some stories and a new incite to share.

I am a wood worker, a carpenter, and a few years ago I was obsessed with the stock market. Don't ask me why. I was watching a real-time stock market feed of some ticker symbol I was interested in. So, I was staring at a line tracing on my computer of the symbol I was tracking, watching its bids, asks and price transactions throughout the afternoon. Anyways, at the same time I was doing this, I was holding a wooden moulding sample that one of my customers wanted me to duplicate, or source. It was a crown moulding and it had a unique profile with various curves, etc. I was really staring at this moulding quite hard for some time while deciding the best way to approach the problem. I periodically looked at the stock market price, too. What emerged on the line tracing of the ticker symbol, as I watched, was a near perfect duplicate of the shape of wood moulding I was holding. In other words, the recent price history, of that day of the stock's transactions, were drawing out a perfect silhouette of the wood moulding I was staring at. True story.

I've got more, though.

I was writing and thinking about the "delayed choice double slit experiment," a while back, and I realized that from my perspective all that I was really getting is a storyline about an experiment. The story might as well be a movie, or some other type of creative fiction. And if the simplest explanation for something is usually correct, then might the experiment itself just be a pre-recording? Or, something that is generated on demand, but a story nonetheless?

At the time I was thinking about the "delayed choice double slit experiment" my attention had also been directed to another weird thing, on YouTube this time. It was a card trick by the British magician, named David Berglas, called "Any Card, Any Number." Instead of me explaining the card trick, I would recommend just seeing it for yourself on YouTube. Anyways, the card trick is not faked or anything. There is no standard magicians trick to it. Yet it is an impossible card trick. So, what I wanted to share with you is this... the "delayed choice double slit experiment" is the same thing as the "Any Card Any Number" card trick. Instead of lasers and mirrors showcasing an experiment in modern physics... the card trick uses people, tables and a deck of cards to showcase a card trick. From my perspective it is all just bits coming from my computer. They are both just stories, you see. I don't know anything about the actual audience members in the card trick, or the magician. My assumption is that these people are real and honest, etc., but they might not be.

Pretty well nothing in this world is as it seems. There is a deception goin on. I'll leave you with this...

If we lived in a world where truth was censored, then we would communicate using stories.