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can move back and forth, up and down, and see it from different angles in three-dimensional detail. By
contrast, of course, a conventional photograph is flat and looks the same from all angles. Holograms are
also different in another way. If you tear a normal photograph into several pieces, you ruin it. Each piece
contains only a disconnected fraction of the total, but not so with a hologram. If you cut up a holographic
film into several pieces, each piece still contains almost the entire image. There is some loss of detail but
basically it’s all there. It’s this fact that led years ago to the Russian breakthrough in biological computer
brains for their robotoids.
For quite some time, scientists in the Intelligence Community world-wide, studying the human brain, have
known one very important fact. That fact is that a portion of a human brain can be removed through
accident or surgery and yet the person still retains most of his original memory, so in this respect the
memory in a human brain is like a hologram. Nowadays the relationship between holography and human
memory is beginning to be understood in the West. For example, Dr. Karl Pribram, a neuropsychologist at
Stanford University, wrote about it recently in the magazine “PSYCHOLOGY TODAY.” As he pointed
out, the implications of holography are enormous, both for brain research and for computers; but this
relationship was first recognized not in America but in a research laboratory at Russia’s Siberian Science
City, Novosibirsk.
[Beter was speaking in 1979. Since then, there is much more recognition of the importance of holograms
to the understanding of the Universe. See for instance the current best-seller, The Holographic Universe,
by Michael Talbot.]
The reason the Russians have scooped the West in many recent scientific discoveries is not that they are
supermen while we are mental midgets; instead it has to do with the way they organize their efforts in
science and technology. This organization is totally different from that in the West, and it’s turning out to be
far more efficient. For one thing, when it comes to research, communications in Russia are far superior to
those in the West. There are more than 5,000 research centers and laboratories in Russia doing research
and development of all kinds, and they are all linked together by vigorous communications—not only
within each scientific field, but between different fields. There’s also a fundamental difference in what is
discussed in Russian technical literature, as compared with the West. In the West, a scientist usually
publishes a technical paper only to report a success of some kind. If he carries out a research project that
fails, he generally publishes nothing about it; but in Russia, many failures and problems are discussed very
openly in the technical literature. As a result, many areas of research meet a very different fate in Russia
than in the West. Here in America an elaborate and expensive scientific project may come very close to
success but fall through because of a key missing ingredient. When that happens, very little is published
about it; but in Russia, the researchers describe their problems and failures; and among the thousands of
other scientists nation-wide, one might have the answer. So the Russian system, which is built around
cooperation, often produces success; but the Western system, especially in America, is built around jealousy
and it often leads to failure. It’s happened many times, my friends, and it happened several years ago
in robotoid brain development.
Last month I revealed that the Russians can manufacture organic robotoids, which are almost exact carbon
copies of real human beings. This is done by a process that simulates the genetic coding of the person to
be copied. It sounds a little like cloning, but it’s not. A clone of a human would itself be a human, but an
organic robotoid is NOT human. It’s an artificial life form, like an animal in some ways but like a comput-
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