The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Do We Live In a Simulation? Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI ...

Researchers say they've proven that the fundamental nature of reality simply cannot be simulated on any computer.

The idea that our Universe might be nothing more than a giant computer simulation, similar to what science fiction depicts, ...

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

A computer simulation shows how urban life has eroded our ties to the outdoors—and how we could reverse it by 2050.

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

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 ...

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 ...