{"id":2923,"date":"2016-04-17T04:15:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T11:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2016-04-17T04:15:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-17T11:15:01","slug":"engineered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/nnn\/engineered","title":{"rendered":"Engineered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, watching Human has me thinking.. the general prevailing wisdom of religions is that we were engineered by a perfect being. But we&#8217;re clearly full of bugs, which people usually call a fatal flaw. If we were engineered, isn&#8217;t it more likely we were engineered by a previous version of ourselves?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve talked about the bottom-up rather than top-down model a fair amount in various bits of this blog. I don&#8217;t see any advocates for it &#8211; people either believe we were created by flipping bits at random and testing the result against the environment, or they believe that we were created by a diety, which for the moment I assume to be a much, much larger and more advanced NNN.<\/p>\n<p>But the bottom-up model makes the most sense to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, watching Human has me thinking.. the general prevailing wisdom of religions is that we were engineered by a perfect being. But we&#8217;re clearly full of bugs, which people usually call a fatal flaw. If we were engineered, isn&#8217;t it more likely we were engineered by a previous version of ourselves? I&#8217;ve talked about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheer.us\/weblogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}