<p>The book that launched the virtual reality debate back in 1986 is back in print - with four additional appendices.</p><p>It raises the question: Which is most fundamental - matter, energy or information?&nbsp;Are we living in a virtual, information-based reality?&nbsp;Or are we simply bound to believe that we are?</p><p>Independence, randomness and irrelevance are basic qualities expected of material reality, but costly attributes in a virtual reality where connectedness would be the expected norm &ndash; suggesting a magical universe where divination and action at a distance are to be expected.&nbsp;Do traditional notions of angels, gods, other dimensions and spiritual worlds, assume new significance in a virtual reality?</p><p>Ramsey Dukes takes you on a voyage of discovery and nothing will ever be the same.&nbsp;Everything will, however, be different</p>