{"id":8891,"date":"2014-09-24T00:49:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T04:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2014-09-24T00:49:43","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T04:49:43","slug":"video-are-you-living-in-a-simulation-seti-institute-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8891","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8216;Are you living in a simulation&#8217; &#8211; SETI Institute seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Silas Beane (Univ. of Washington) gives a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seti.org\" target=\"_blank\">SETI Institute<\/a> seminar on the question,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jtPX1XPmIsg&amp;feature=em-uploademail\" target=\"_d\">Are you living in a simulation?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jtPX1XPmIsg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From the caption:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Philosophers have long considered the possibility that we live in an artificial or simulated reality. Dr. Beane gives a short overview of some of the simulation arguments\/scenarios that he personally finds most compelling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Dr. Beane then attempts to frame the simulation argument in the context of science. In particular, discusses recent work which suggests various observational tests of the hypothesis that we are currently living in a simulated universe. These include studies of the cosmic microwave background, high-energy cosmic rays, and high-precision terrestrial experiments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Silas Beane (Univ. of Washington) gives a SETI Institute seminar on the question,\u00a0Are you living in a simulation? &nbsp; From the caption: Philosophers have long considered the possibility that we live in an artificial or simulated reality. Dr. Beane gives a short overview of some of the simulation arguments\/scenarios that he personally finds most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: &#8216;Are you living in a simulation&#8217; &#8211; SETI Institute seminar<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-science-and-technology","category-simulators"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2jp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9368,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=9368","url_meta":{"origin":8891,"position":0},"title":"Video: Attempts to explain loss of water from Mars","author":"TopSpacer","date":"December 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a SETI Institute seminar by Stephen Brecht on the question of what happened to the water believed once to have covered significant portions of Mars:\u00a0Attempts to explain water loss from Mars -\u00a0SETI Institute http:\/\/youtu.be\/Qmcnpe-j2z8 From the video caption: The debate about whether or not Mars ever had life upon\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/Qmcnpe-j2z8\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2515,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2515","url_meta":{"origin":8891,"position":1},"title":"HI-SEAS project simulates long space voyage","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The NASA funded project\u00a0HI-SEAS (Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation) is investigating human factor challenges for a Mars mission. 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