{"id":296,"date":"2008-10-13T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radhikand.wordpress.com\/2008\/10\/13\/are-you-living-in-the-matrix"},"modified":"2008-10-13T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T10:24:00","slug":"are-you-living-in-the-matrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/are-you-living-in-the-matrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you living in The Matrix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:justify;\" align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/ffximage\/2005\/04\/08\/matrix_wideweb__430x326.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border:0;margin-left:10px;margin-right:10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/ffximage\/2005\/04\/08\/matrix_wideweb__430x326.jpg\" width=\"301\" height=\"228\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> There are instances in everyone&#8217;s life where one feels they&#8217;ve got no control of their life, it doesn&#8217;t matter what we want to do or plan for, things just happen as if pre-determined. The more religiously inclined call it &#8220;fate&#8221; and the controls are in the hands of the God. But has a thought ever occurred to you, &#8220;What if our lives are a computer programme that has already been written and is just being executed right now? What if we are mere parameters in the programme who have no control over or cannot change the code? And who is the programmer?&#8221; Well, may be you are not as &#8220;unconventionally scientifically-inclined&#8221; as I am and so this might have never occurred to you.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\" align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\" align=\"justify\">But it sure has occurred to a few out there, like <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f8000000000225c77\" title=\"Nick Bostrom\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nick_Bostrom\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Nick Bostrom<\/a>, Professor, Director, <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f8000000004727ef7\" title=\"Future of Humanity Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Future_of_Humanity_Institute\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Future of Humanity Institute<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f800000000003e5d4\" title=\"University of Oxford\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=51.7611,-1.2534&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=51.7611,-1.2534\" rel=\"geolocation\">Oxford University<\/a>, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation-argument.com\/\">published a paper<\/a> in 2001 with the title that I have stolen for this blog entry. I came across this paper today through another article written on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grahamhancock.com\/forum\/ElvidgeJ2.php?p=1\">the forum<\/a> of Graham Hancock&#8217;s website. The writer of the article is Jim Elvidge (MS in <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f8000000000014aa1\" title=\"Electrical engineering (terminology)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Electrical_engineering_%28terminology%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Electrical Engineering<\/a> from Cornell University). <em>[From the forum] He has applied his training in the high-tech world as a leader in technology and enterprise management, including many years in executive roles for various companies and entrepreneurial ventures. He also holds 4 patents in <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f8000000000012e61\" title=\"Digital signal processing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_signal_processing\" rel=\"wikipedia\">digital signal processing<\/a> and has written articles for publications as diverse as Monitoring Times and the <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f800000000006d610\" title=\"Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ieee.org\/\" rel=\"homepage\">IEEE<\/a> Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing. Beyond the high-tech realm, however, Elvidge has years of experience as a musician, writer, and truth seeker. He merged his technology skills with his love of music, developed one of the first PC-based digital music samplers, and co-founded RadioAMP, the first private-label online streaming-radio <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f8000000006ae3af5\" title=\"Company\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Company\" rel=\"wikipedia\">company<\/a>. For many years, Elvidge has kept pace with the latest research, theories, and discoveries in the varied fields of subatomic physics, cosmology, <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f8000000000004e3e\" title=\"Artificial intelligence\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Artificial_intelligence\" rel=\"wikipedia\">artificial intelligence<\/a>, nanotechnology, and the paranormal. This unique knowledge base has provided the foundation for his first full-length book, &#8220;The Universe-Solved!&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\" align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\" align=\"justify\">The idea of people living in a <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f80000000002078de\" title=\"Computer simulation\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Computer_simulation\" rel=\"wikipedia\">computer simulation<\/a> has been the theme of popular movies like The <a class=\"zem_slink freebase\/guid\/9202a8c04000641f80000000002084cd\" title=\"The Matrix (series)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Matrix_%28series%29\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Matrix trilogy<\/a>. But now you know, it is a serious possibility, folks! May be our reality and the world are mere simulations run by us-from-the-future!<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\" align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;\" align=\"justify\">PS: Electronics giant Sony has patented The-Matrix-like process to transmit data directly into the brain. Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2005\/04\/07\/1112815673552.html?oneclick=true\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are instances in everyone&#8217;s life where one feels they&#8217;ve got no control of their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15,24,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-computer","category-future","category-unconventional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiance-holistic.com.au\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}