It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

In their study, they identified what they called "Godelian truths", truths that cannot be defined by any algorithm or fixed ...

The odds suggest humans are almost certainly living in a simulation, according to Nick Bostrom’s simulation trilemma and ...

Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

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 ...

Simulation theory proposes that our reality is a sophisticated computer simulation, raising profound questions about the nature of consciousness and existence. Simulation theory is a fascinating ...

In March, China’s Xi Jinping announced that “digital twin” technology, which uses computer simulation to manage real-world systems, is one of six “new productive forces” in which his nation will lead ...

The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous ...