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In a recent interview with Good magazine, Ray Kurzweil speculates that an injection of nanobots could trick your neurons into thinking you're in a reality you're not: http://venturebeat.com/2009/04/12/virtual-reality-will-come-from-inside-our-brain-not-goggles-says-ray-kurzweil/Sounds eerily similar to another article (see paragraph 8): http://www.theuniversesolved.com/a_videogame.htm
Certainly might be coincidental, but one wonders about such coincidences after one emails his ideas to Mr. Kurzweil 2 years ago, doesn't hear anything back, and then reads such ideas 2 years later. OK.
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It's a few years since I read it, but in 'The Singularity is Near' (2005) he (at the very least) alludes to this possibility. Sorry to hear about your not receiving a reply to your e-mail, Jim, I'd be reasonably confident that there's an adequate explanation - perhaps try mailing him again?
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Hey Neo, Actually, you are correct. I never read that book cover to cover, but I just looked in the index and found a section on that very idea. I stand corrected! 
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