On the 'Startrek' starship 'Enterprise', one of the decks is setup 
as a virtual reality hologram for the crew to have R&R.  This deck 
may simulate a planet surface, or any environment in esquisite and 
totally convincing detail compleat with animated forms, which also 
are programmed by the ship's computer for crew members to interact 
with.  When a crew member is projected onto the holodeck, he might 
remember that in 'actuality' he is one thing, while given the kind 
of role he as, he may be quite another.  Or he might, as Aristotle 
and the Bagavad Gita suggests, totally forget where he came from. 
 
It occurred to me that I was born on a holodeck.  There is lots of 
evidence.  The holodeck is projected into three dimensions by some 
kind of complex computer program.  Every complex program has a few 
bugs.  This one is pretty good at keeping track of important stuff 
like the floor, the sky, and the people I interact with, but it is 
not so swift at small shit like car keys, pens, money, whatever. 
 
As a result, stuff like this disappears, which sometimes reappears 
to me, other times I forget about it, and it is history.  Programs 
also have trouble with random numbers, and there is a considerable 
doubt they are capable of it.  As a result, the same old shit just 
keeps happening again and again.  OTOH, strange shit happens which 
is so weird it's way beyond the realm of reasonable probabilities; 
so it is that Murphy's laws really do work- damn well. :-} 
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