Matthew Raspanti

Education: Doctorate in industrial engineering, University of Palermo (Italy), 1946;

M.E.E., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1952

Experience: 35 years with Bell Labs, as a technical department head for the last 25 years; retired since 1990.

Long-time involvement with virtual reality:

In 1998, I self-published the book "The Virtual Universe - Philosophy, Physics and the Nature of Things" in which, after an overview of philosophy and physics, I presented my conjecture that 1) We live in a non-material virtual universe somewhat akin to the virtual reality of computer science, and 2) This virtual universe, which includes our bodies, but not our minds, is the creation of a Cosmic Mind, of which our individual minds are integral parts. I called this worldview "virtualism" and presented arguments from physics to support it. (I copyrighted a prior unpublished version of this book in 1993.)

In 2008, I self-published "Virtualism, Mind and Reality - An Approach to Untangle the Consciousness Problem."

December 2017