{"id":9721,"date":"2019-04-02T17:36:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T00:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9721"},"modified":"2019-04-13T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T05:36:51","slug":"the-simulation-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/02\/the-simulation-hypothesis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simulation Hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/we-spoke-to-an-mit-computer-scientists-about-the-simulation-hypothesis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from Digital Trends<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Are we living in a simulation? This MIT scientist says it\u2019s more likely than not<\/h1>\n<p>by Dyllan Furness<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wp-image-2315719 is-zoomable\" href=\"https:\/\/icdn5.digitaltrends.com\/image\/medrez_riz_play_labs_august_2017_phan__05-1500x1000.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2315719 dt-lazy-loaded\" src=\"https:\/\/icdn6.digitaltrends.com\/image\/medrez_riz_play_labs_august_2017_phan__05-720x720.jpg\" alt=\"we spoke to an mit computer scientists about the simulation hypothesis medrez riz play labs august 2017 phan 05\" width=\"480\" data-dt-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/icdn6.digitaltrends.com\/image\/medrez_riz_play_labs_august_2017_phan__05-720x720.jpg\" \/><\/a><em><strong>Rizwan Virk<\/strong>, Play Labs\u2019 Executive Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What if I told you that physical reality is an illusion and we all live in a computer simulation?<\/p>\n<p>That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film <em>The Matrix<\/em>, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playlabs.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Play Labs<\/a> at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07M81F1KG?tag=digitren08-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Simulation Hypothesis<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Virk endeavors to unpack the heady arguments that call our physical world into question.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/we-spoke-to-an-mit-computer-scientists-about-the-simulation-hypothesis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Digital Trends<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Digital Trends Are we living in a simulation? This MIT scientist says it\u2019s more likely than not by Dyllan Furness Rizwan Virk, Play Labs\u2019 Executive Director What if I told you that physical reality is an illusion and we all live in a computer simulation? That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}