Rizwan Virk

We would have a sense of deja vu.

Such an impression is a clue

that some variable had been changed in the past.

And so one way that it fits in with deja vu is it's very possible that we have done this before because if you run a simulation, you might run it multiple times to see what is the best outcome, the worst outcome.

Perhaps you are running it yourself in dreams, for example.

Some people had precognitive dreams, for example.

It's a real phenomenon and it's weird because you can't really explain it from a normal point of view.

I didn't believe it until I had it happen to me in the business world.

It was really weird.

We had a startup back in Boston.

We worked with IBM as one of our key partners

And we had a competitor who, this guy named Mark and his company was called Edge Research.

And they disappeared like a year ago and we weren't sure what happened to them.

And I just hadn't thought of this guy in a year, never had a dream about him.

One morning I had a dream and there's my competitor, Mark, you know, from Edge Research.

And he's like, hey, how are things going?

And I just woke up and I thought, that's

bizarre why am i dreaming of this guy now of all days haven't heard from him in a year never ever had a dream about him and then i walked in the office and i got a call from ibm and they're like hey we're calling you because before we do this announcement today because you're one of our partners but we're introducing this new product unfortunately it's going to compete with your product it's going to probably crush your product but you're a good partner so we thought we'd let you know beforehand i was like great thanks but then i was like wait how come i hadn't heard of this product before ibm is a big company i mean i'm sure i would have heard of it

He goes, oh, do you remember that competitor of yours, Mark from Edge Research?

We bought his company about a year ago and they've been working in secret in New Hampshire and it's just coming out now.