{"id":138,"date":"2017-09-25T19:45:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2017-09-25T19:45:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T19:45:23","slug":"religion-in-sci-fi-ready-player-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Sci-fi: Ready Player One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ready Player One<\/em> is a dystopian novel, at least so far, whose hero, Wade, has a rough life.\u00a0 Early on we learn of his disillusionment with the world he has been born into: \u201cThat story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. &#8230; We made it all up.\u00a0 Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.\u201d\u00a0 On the other hand, Wade is a \u2018gunter\u2019, an egg hunter in a virtual reality world called OASIS.<br \/>\nNow, I\u2019d like to suggest that there is a logical imbalance in the treatment of reality in this setup.\u00a0 Virtual reality is the presentation of stimulation to the gamer, to his senses, that mimics what he could be experiencing in the \u2018real world\u2019.\u00a0 It is based on algorithms, that run on computers, and which are no more than complicated streams of bits, zeroes and ones.\u00a0 These are electric signals racing along circuits and through chips.<br \/>\nBut, isn\u2019t that eerily similar to what the believer receives from \u2018the other world\u2019, the \u2018spiritual universe\u2019?\u00a0 Beliefs, ideas, and thoughts are said, by the materialists, to be no more than electro-chemical impulses racing through the brain, along neural pathways.\u00a0 Scientists claim to be able to see where they are located inside the brain, but as yet, the algorithms they are part of have not been explained.<br \/>\nWhy is \u2018virtual reality\u2019 given such a glamorous role in these stories, while \u2018spiritual reality\u2019 or thought itself, is less highly valued.\u00a0 My series, which begins with <em>Perturbations Of The Reality Field<\/em>, posits a reality that blends the physical universe and the spiritual universe at the quantum level by intertwining strings.\u00a0 I hope you will take a look at it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready Player One is a dystopian novel, at least so far, whose hero, Wade, has a rough life.\u00a0 Early on we learn of his disillusionment with the world he has been born into: \u201cThat story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefifthprophet.com\/wpBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}