{"id":32779,"date":"2016-12-18T07:48:31","date_gmt":"2016-12-18T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-simulation-hypothesis-is-reality-all-just-a-computer-simulation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T08:57:26","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T15:57:26","slug":"the-simulation-hypothesis-is-reality-all-just-a-computer-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/the-simulation-hypothesis-is-reality-all-just-a-computer-simulation","title":{"rendered":"The Simulation Hypothesis: Is Reality All Just A Computer Simulation?"},"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\/2KK_kzrJPS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In Brief As technology improves, the possibility that our world may be a simulated one is becoming more and more probable, argues Universe Today founder Fraser Cain. But can we ever prove that we live in a simulation of a reality?<\/p>\n<p>All the world\u2019s a stage. Or is it a simulation?<\/p>\n<p>The idea that what we consider reality is actually a simulation was first proposed by scientist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/simulation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Bostrom<\/a>, and it is frequently addressed in fiction (e.g., \u201cThe Matrix\u201d trilogy) and by innovators and educators such as Elon Musk, who brought up the topic at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2KK_kzrJPS8\" target=\"_blank\">2016 Code Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-simulation-hypothesis-is-reality-all-just-a-computer-simulation\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-simulation-hypothesis-is-reality-al...imulation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brief As technology improves, the possibility that our world may be a simulated one is becoming more and more probable, argues Universe Today founder Fraser Cain. But can we ever prove that we live in a simulation of a reality? All the world\u2019s a stage. Or is it a simulation? The idea that what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32779","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\/32779","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\/387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59434,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32779\/revisions\/59434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}