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Wednesday, 30 March 2005, 04:08 AM


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That idea has been around in SciFi for many years, at least since around the year 1920.

There is a great movie, called "The Thirteenth Floor" about this idea.  It is a SciFi, romance, and mystery story.  If you don't want some of the plot spoiled, stop reading now.







It is about a murder mystery where the lead scientist in a research project was murdered.  It is the current year. The project is to create a real virtual simulations world from the time of his youth.  They are sucessful, and can link their minds into the computer and experience that world by possesing the virtual bodies of their counterparts in the simulated world.  When they are not in that world, their counterparts live their own lives not knowing what their bodies had done during the possession.  After a while it is discovered that the real world is a virtual world created by a computer firm from about 20 years in the future.  So the real, real world created a simulation in which the virtual people have created their own simulated world in turn.  The romantic angle is that the main character, a virtual person of the "real" world and the woman who he meets as the adult daughter of his mudered mentor but is in fact from the real real world fall in love.