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Response 2, to Lofting's C5
THE WORLD AS AN ILLUSION
by VV Raman
21 January 1998



Dear Dr. Lofting:

I enjoyed reading your very thoughtful, penetrating, and
quite original thoughts which were provoked by my reflections on Hypercomplexity. I will confess that here and there I was a little lost, and was not sure if I had been clear enough in what I was trying to say. I have always felt and maintained that the world such as it appears is an illusion: i.e. an impression resulting from the biochemistry of the human brain. So the only reality that we can talk about is Perceived Reality. Whether and to what extent this PR is a reflection of anything "out there" I absolutely do not know.
I was merely trying to say that
PR SEEMS TO HAVE THREE or FOUR DIFFERENT LEVELS or PLANES OF
MANIFESTATION.

This may be a totally wrong way of reacting to the world, as you seem to suggest.
I will agree with that.

With best regards,
VV Raman