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

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

All the world’s a stage. Or is it a simulation? The idea that what we consider reality is actually a simulation was first proposed by scientist Nick Bostrom, and it is frequently addressed in fiction ...

Spoiler: You are not living in a simulation. Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the ...

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

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A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

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 ...

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 ...

That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at the Massachusetts ...

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 ...