If, like Neo at the start of the film The Matrix, we are all living inside a pre-recorded simulation then there must be an occasional
glitch in the playback, a tell-tale sign that proves that this is all an internally generated holographic image. Again the writers of The Matrix
show how this may be implied. In the film Neo experiences the phenomenon commonly known as a déjà vu. He sees a cat cross his path twice.
This, it transpires, is evidence that the matrix programme was being altered. Could this be what is really happening in a déjà vu experience?
If the holographic theory of experience is right then all a déjà vu is is a judder in the playback process, a situation were the same information
is presented to consciousness twice.
Is this what Wilder Penfield discovered in his experiments? Did Penfield accidentally start a small section of the holographically encoded
three-dimensional memories suggested by Karl Pribram?
If so the process must involve certain structures and chemical processes in the brain. If that is the case then the déjà vu experience is a
clue to a much more fascinating possibility - that we are all living our lives not for the first time but at least the second.
For certain special individuals déjà vu is not a rare and puzzling psychological curiosity. For those with temporal lobe epilepsy the sensation
of déjà vu is part and parcel of their everyday life.
