{"id":112859,"date":"2020-09-10T22:22:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicist-the-entire-universe-might-be-a-neural-network"},"modified":"2020-09-10T22:22:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:22:17","slug":"physicist-the-entire-universe-might-be-a-neural-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/physicist-the-entire-universe-might-be-a-neural-network","title":{"rendered":"Physicist: The Entire Universe Might Be a Neural Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicist-the-entire-universe-might-be-a-neural-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve felt this might be true for many years. There\u2019s obviously nothing inherently biological about neural networks. It could even explain the development of intelligent life when so many things work against that development \u2014 the universe is driven to try to create intelligence \u2014 a form of \u201cintelligent design.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>We live inside a neural network, he says, not a simulation \u2014 \u201cbut we might never know the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve felt this might be true for many years. There\u2019s obviously nothing inherently biological about neural networks. It could even explain the development of intelligent life when so many things work against that development \u2014 the universe is driven to try to create intelligence \u2014 a form of \u201cintelligent design.\u201d We live inside a neural [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}