{"id":1980,"date":"2008-04-07T16:55:23","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/04\/07\/the-meaning-of-life\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T16:55:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T16:55:23","slug":"the-meaning-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/the-meaning-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a theory that cinema and other forms of fiction often arise not from pure creativity, but from prescience.  It is not the case, when this happens, that &#8220;life imitates art&#8221; but rather, that art predicts life.  It is only a matter of figuring out which so-called &#8216;creative&#8217; manifestations are predictive of reality in order to understand the deep secrets of nature.After much analysis, the details of which I shall provide later, I have been able to determine that The Force &#8230; yes, I&#8217;m talking about The Force as in Star Wars, is real, and is the determining element for evolution and for life itself.  Details below the fold.<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/pandasthumb.org\/archives\/2008\/04\/have-a-querulou.html\">HAPPY PAUL NELSON DAY!!!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a theory that cinema and other forms of fiction often arise not from pure creativity, but from prescience. It is not the case, when this happens, that &#8220;life imitates art&#8221; but rather, that art predicts life. It is only a matter of figuring out which so-called &#8216;creative&#8217; manifestations are predictive of reality in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/07\/the-meaning-of-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Meaning of Life<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[191],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-vW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}