{"id":57397,"date":"2017-05-16T03:22:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T10:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-human-universe-does-consciousness-create-reality"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:00:59","slug":"the-human-universe-does-consciousness-create-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/the-human-universe-does-consciousness-create-reality","title":{"rendered":"The human universe: Does consciousness create reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-human-universe-does-consciousness-create-reality.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While not a complete figment of our imagination, the universe may only become real because we\u2019re looking at it.<\/p>\n<p>By Douglas Heaven<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Johnson thought the idea was so preposterous that kicking a rock was enough to silence discussion. \u201cI refute it thus,\u201d he cried as his foot rebounded from reality. Had he known about quantum mechanics, he might have spared himself the stubbed toe.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630190-500-the-human-universe-does-consciousness-create-reality\/?cmpid=SOC|NSNS|2017-Echobox&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#link_time=1494838267\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22630190&#45;500-the-...1494838267<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While not a complete figment of our imagination, the universe may only become real because we\u2019re looking at it. By Douglas Heaven Samuel Johnson thought the idea was so preposterous that kicking a rock was enough to silence discussion. \u201cI refute it thus,\u201d he cried as his foot rebounded from reality. Had he known about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57540,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57397\/revisions\/57540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}