{"id":89369,"date":"2019-04-09T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/great-minds-think-universe-is-a-computer-program"},"modified":"2019-04-09T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2019-04-09T20:43:41","slug":"great-minds-think-universe-is-a-computer-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/great-minds-think-universe-is-a-computer-program","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGreat\u201d Minds Think Universe Is a Computer Program"},"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\/aA-FcnLsF1g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>The Matrix<\/em>, the first episode, was a fun movie. But as a description for reality? Please.<\/p>\n<p>Yet some of our most prominent scientific and tech thinkers seriously propose we are living in a computer program. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/earth\/story\/20160901-we-might-live-in-a-computer-program-but-it-may-not-matter?ocid=ww.social.link.twitter\">From the <em>BBC<\/em> story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The idea that we live in a simulation has some high-profile advocates.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2016, technology entrepreneur Elon Musk assertedthat the odds are \u201ca billion to one\u201d against us living in \u201cbase reality\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/great-minds-think-universe-is-a-computer-program\">Continue reading \u201c\u201cGreat\u201d Minds Think Universe Is a Computer Program\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 The Matrix, the first episode, was a fun movie. But as a description for reality? Please. Yet some of our most prominent scientific and tech thinkers seriously propose we are living in a computer program. From the BBC story: The idea that we live in a simulation has some high-profile advocates. In June [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89369","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\/89369","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}