{"id":4448,"date":"2018-10-29T06:47:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T10:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=4448"},"modified":"2018-10-29T14:52:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T18:52:26","slug":"are-we-living-in-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/29\/are-we-living-in-a-simulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we living in a SIMULATION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4438\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4438\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4438\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-4-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"Are we living in a SIMULATION?\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-4-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/AW10292018-4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Are we living in a SIMULATION?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To our joy and sorrow, probably not. The reasons for joy are real, as are the reasons for sorrow. You&#8217;d probably enjoy the idealist philosopher George Berkeley (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/bishop-berkeley\">bit.ly\/bishop-berkeley<\/a>), though you may find his pure idealism jarringly more radical than the possibility that we&#8217;re living in a simulation, which presupposes a material reality that&#8217;s creating the illusion in which we live. Berkeley would dispense with that materialist nonsense rather quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To our joy and sorrow, probably not. The reasons for joy are real, as are the reasons for sorrow. You&#8217;d probably enjoy the idealist philosopher George Berkeley (bit.ly\/bishop-berkeley), though you may find his pure idealism jarringly more radical than the possibility that we&#8217;re living in a simulation, which presupposes a material reality that&#8217;s creating the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/10\/29\/are-we-living-in-a-simulation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are we living in a 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-4448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448","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=4448"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4448\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}