{"id":5495,"date":"2008-03-02T12:07:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp2\/2008\/03\/02\/thought-for-the-day\/"},"modified":"2008-03-02T12:07:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T18:07:28","slug":"thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/thought-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haibane.info\/2008\/03\/02\/singularity-skeptic\/\">Let&#8217;s postulate that death can simply be engineered away. That human brains can be modeled in the Cloud and data can be copied back and forth from wetware to silicon. Then what do we become? A race of gods? or just a pile of nodes, acting out virtual fantasies until the heat death of the universe pulls the plug? That\u2019s not post- or trans-humanism, it&#8217;s null-humanism.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s postulate that death can simply be engineered away. That human brains can be modeled in the Cloud and data can be copied back and forth from wetware to silicon. Then what do we become? A race of gods? or just a pile of nodes, acting out virtual fantasies until the heat death of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/thought-for-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thought for the day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[506,522],"class_list":["post-5495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sf-and-beyond","tag-sf","tag-skepticism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1qD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}