{"id":19486,"date":"2015-11-21T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=19486"},"modified":"2017-04-29T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T22:45:00","slug":"why-it-matters-that-you-realize-youre-in-a-computer-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/why-it-matters-that-you-realize-youre-in-a-computer-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Why it matters that you realize you\u2019re in a computer simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-21-at-2.59.28-PM.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What if our universe is something like a computer simulation, or a virtual reality, or a video game? The proposition that the universe is actually a computer simulation was furthered in a big way during the 1970s, when John Conway famously proved that if you take a binary system, and subject that system to only a few rules (in the case of Conway\u2019s experiment, four); then that system creates something rather peculiar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ieet.org\/index.php\/IEET\/more\/Edge20151114\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if our universe is something like a computer simulation, or a virtual reality, or a video game? The proposition that the universe is actually a computer simulation was furthered in a big way during the 1970s, when John Conway famously proved that if you take a binary system, and subject that system to only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509,20,225,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-futurism","category-philosophy","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57009,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19486\/revisions\/57009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}