I even knew the mathematical reasons why. It was science, not magic or supernatural laws at work. Yet the human being in me kept asking over and over again just what reality really was, anyway. For it wasn't only the uncanny hologram. It was the thought that before me might lie the basic secret of how that pickled brain across the hallway had once stored a living mind.
Theories are what make scientific revolutions happen.
And we may just be in the early and uncertain rounds of one right now. For the abstract principles of the hologram form the basis of a theory to explain the brain's most elusive properties. And that's what I'll call it here. Hologramic theory was first proposed by physicists, not psychologists, physiologists, or anatomists. But the theory has been used by a number of behavioral and biological scientists during the past few years to account for many diverse paradoxes about the brain.