{"id":3677,"date":"2018-09-19T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T15:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=3677"},"modified":"2018-09-19T17:37:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:37:25","slug":"do-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/19\/do-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Do we live in a computer simulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3664\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091918-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3664\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091918-1-300x287.jpg\" alt=\"Do we live in a computer simulation?\" width=\"300\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091918-1-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/aw091918-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do we live in a computer simulation?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There was a conference about that a couple of years ago and a number of prominent scientists and philosophers weighed in: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-cs1\">bit.ly\/bc-cs1<\/a>. You can look up their work in the library catalog or articles search. The article by Bostrum mentioned there is here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-cs2\">bit.ly\/bc-cs2<\/a>. If you want to dig a little deeper, discussions of the nature of the physical universe usually go under cosmology&#8211;here&#8217;s an article which covers scientific and philosophical positions equally: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bc-cs3\">bit.ly\/bc-cs3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a conference about that a couple of years ago and a number of prominent scientists and philosophers weighed in: bit.ly\/bc-cs1. You can look up their work in the library catalog or articles search. The article by Bostrum mentioned there is here: bit.ly\/bc-cs2. If you want to dig a little deeper, discussions of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/09\/19\/do-we-live-in-a-computer-simulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do we live in a computer simulation?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3707,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions\/3707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}