{"id":29172,"date":"2016-08-20T00:47:36","date_gmt":"2016-08-20T07:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/we-might-live-in-a-virtual-universe-but-it-doesnt-really-matter"},"modified":"2017-06-04T09:55:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T16:55:28","slug":"we-might-live-in-a-virtual-universe-but-it-doesnt-really-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/we-might-live-in-a-virtual-universe-but-it-doesnt-really-matter","title":{"rendered":"We Might Live in a Virtual Universe \u2014 But It Doesn\u2019t Really Matter"},"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\/MlftshhkO4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You might have heard the news: Our world could be a clever computer simulation that creates the impression of living in a real world. <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/06\/23\/elon-musk-says-were-probably-living-in-a-computer-simulation-heres-the-science\/\">Elon Musk brought up<\/a> this topic a few weeks ago. Truth be told \u2014 he is probably right. However, there is a very important point missing in this whole \u201creal vs. fake\u201d discussion: It actually makes no difference. But first\u2026why might our world be a simulation?<\/p>\n<p>Musk is nowhere near the first one to suggest our world might be fake. The idea reaches back to the ancient Greeks, though what we call a computer simulation, the ancient Greeks called a dream.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing to realize is this: Our perception of reality is already separate from reality itself.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/03\/we-might-live-in-a-virtual-universe-but-it-doesnt-really-matter\/?utm_content=bufferf379b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook-hub&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/singularityhub.com\/2016\/08\/03\/we-might-live-in-a-virt...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have heard the news: Our world could be a clever computer simulation that creates the impression of living in a real world. Elon Musk brought up this topic a few weeks ago. Truth be told \u2014 he is probably right. However, there is a very important point missing in this whole \u201creal vs. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172","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\/411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60702,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29172\/revisions\/60702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}