{"id":5093,"date":"2013-09-01T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5093"},"modified":"2013-09-01T07:25:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T14:25:39","slug":"perhaps-none-of-this-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=5093","title":{"rendered":"Perhaps None of This is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought about this myself: What if our universe isn&#8217;t real, but is a computer simulation. Or what would approximate a computer simulation on a grand scale?<\/p>\n<p>The question I would have if this existence where simulated, ala <em>The Matrix<\/em>, would be &#8220;What&#8217;s the point?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let me get philosophical: Are we here voluntarily or are we sentenced to life? Either way, the process somehow involves losing most, if not all, memory of any prior existence. Apparently that&#8217;s one of the rules and pretty much everyone abides by it.<\/p>\n<p>And how can you determine whether or not you&#8217;re in a simulation when the only tools available to you are built inside the same construct? It would be like looking for a glitch in a game, an exploit. But not every exploit can be utilized to determine the external environment. Etc.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I could prattle on for hours on such a topic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2012\/12\/12\/physicists-universe-simulation-test-university-of-washington-matrix_n_2282745.html\" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve thought about this myself: What if our universe isn&#8217;t real, but is a computer simulation. Or what would approximate a computer simulation on a grand scale? The question I would have if this existence where simulated, ala The Matrix, would be &#8220;What&#8217;s the point?&#8221; Let me get philosophical: Are we here voluntarily or are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wambooli-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5093"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5094,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5093\/revisions\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}