Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe ...

Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see.

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has shifted from late-night dorm debate to a live question in physics and philosophy. A growing body of work now treats the “simulation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers say it's impossible to use algorithmic computation to generate everything in our universe. The possibility that our ...

The simulation hypothesis is an impressive logical and philosophical argument that has challenged our fundamental notions of reality.

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Elon Musk and others find it plausible that our experiences result from events in a computer simulation, just like the characters in the Matrix movies. An alternative view, supported by both common ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

I was invited by the American Humanist Association to present the arguments of my paper “Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis” at the national conference this past weekend. It was fun: I met a ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...