{"id":24586,"date":"2016-04-12T11:31:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T18:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/is-the-universe-a-simulation-scientists-debate"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:19:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:19:49","slug":"is-the-universe-a-simulation-scientists-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/is-the-universe-a-simulation-scientists-debate","title":{"rendered":"Is the Universe a Simulation? Scientists Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wgSZA3NPpBs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hmm\u2026 That would explain Alzheimer disease \u2014 It\u2019d be like some sort of unabashedly evil version of a smart phone data caps!<\/p>\n<p>Or not.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"wp-smiley emoji emoji-wink\" title=\";-)\">wink<\/span>  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 Is the universe just an enormous, fantastically complex simulation? If so, how could we find out, and what would that knowledge mean for humanity?<\/p>\n<p>These were the big questions that a group of scientists, as well as one philosopher, tackled on April 5 during the 17th annual Isaac Asimov Debate here at the American Museum of Natural History. The event honors Asimov, the visionary science-fiction writer, by inviting experts in diverse fields to discuss pressing questions on the scientific frontiers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/is-the-universe-a-simulation-scientists-debate\">Continue reading \u201cIs the Universe a Simulation? Scientists Debate\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm\u2026 That would explain Alzheimer disease \u2014 It\u2019d be like some sort of unabashedly evil version of a smart phone data caps! Or not. wink NEW YORK \u2014 Is the universe just an enormous, fantastically complex simulation? If so, how could we find out, and what would that knowledge mean for humanity? These were the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,41,1512,47,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-information-science","category-mobile-phones","category-neuroscience","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42579,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24586\/revisions\/42579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}