{"id":196073,"date":"2024-09-12T15:24:52","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/simulation-theory-why-the-matrix-may-be-closer-to-fact-than-fiction"},"modified":"2024-09-12T15:24:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:24:52","slug":"simulation-theory-why-the-matrix-may-be-closer-to-fact-than-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/simulation-theory-why-the-matrix-may-be-closer-to-fact-than-fiction","title":{"rendered":"Simulation theory: why The Matrix may be closer to fact than fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/simulation-theory-why-the-matrix-may-be-closer-to-fact-than-fiction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Matrix\u201d may have been right all along. The idea that we are all living in a virtual simulation of reality formed the basis of the 1999 cult film, and now some philosophers and an increasing number of scientists are coming round to the idea it might actually be true.<\/p>\n<p>Simulation theory, as it is known, is a \u201ctheoretical hypothesis that says what people perceive as reality is actually an advanced, hyper-realistic computer simulation, possibly overseen by a higher being\u201d, said <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/builtin.com\/hardware\/simulation-theory#:~:text=Simulation%20Theory%20Definition, overseen%20by%20a%20higher%20being.\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/builtin.com\/hardware\/simulation-theory#:~:text=Simulation%20Theory%20Definition, overseen%20by%20a%20higher%20being.\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">BuiltIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Matrix\u201d may have been right all along. The idea that we are all living in a virtual simulation of reality formed the basis of the 1999 cult film, and now some philosophers and an increasing number of scientists are coming round to the idea it might actually be true. Simulation theory, as it is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196073","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}