{"id":1139,"date":"2021-03-05T00:21:11","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2021-03-05T00:22:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T05:22:36","slug":"are-we-living-in-a-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/2021\/03\/05\/are-we-living-in-a-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we living in a matrix?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last year, 2020, was a very odd year. It seemed like everything that happened came at us at an unbelievable level. This odd year has raised the question,&#8221; are we in a living simulation?&#8221; Were these events just base on reality and completely random? Or is our existence a simulation, and these events are part of the simulation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The chance that we are in a simulation is relatively high. Suppose you think about our ability to create simulations like VR and video games. It is reasonable to believe if our technology continues to increase, these simulations would become so real we may not have the ability to tell the difference between the simulation and our actual reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we think even more in-depth, we may ask ourselves, did this already happen? Did humans or AI create very realistic simulations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we created real simulations, could this reality not be the base reality? Could it be a simulation in a simulation in a simulation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Elon Musk: &quot;I promised I wouldn&#039;t talk about this again!&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kK9QoolSs30?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, 2020, was a very odd year. It seemed like everything that happened came at us at an unbelievable level. This odd year has raised the question,&#8221; are we in a living simulation?&#8221; Were these events just base on reality and completely random? Or is our existence a simulation, and these events are part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","beyondwords_generate_audio":"","beyondwords_project_id":"","beyondwords_podcast_id":"","beyondwords_hash":"","beyondwords_error_message":"","beyondwords_disabled":"","publish_post_to_speechkit":"","speechkit_generate_audio":"","speechkit_project_id":"","speechkit_podcast_id":"","speechkit_hash":"","speechkit_error_message":"","speechkit_disabled":"","speechkit_access_key":"","speechkit_error":"","speechkit_info":"","speechkit_response":"","speechkit_retries":"","_speechkit_link":"","_speechkit_text":""},"categories":[10,260],"tags":[436,434,435],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-tech","tag-computers","tag-matrix","tag-reality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/simulation.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/american-review.org\/sentiment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}