Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could investigate ...

Science doesn’t have all the answers. There are plenty of things it may never prove, like whether there’s a God. Or whether we’re living in a computer simulation, something proposed by Swedish ...

What if I told you that physical reality is an illusion and we all live in a computer simulation? Are we all just artificial intelligence (A.I.) programs running on the basement servers of some ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In 2015, the United Nations Member States signed up to a set of 17 sustainable-development goals or SDGs, to be reached by 2030. These goals are utopian, including lofty aspirations like ending ...

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch,” said Carl Sagan, “you must first invent the universe.” A new simulation of the evolution of the universe, called the Illustris Project, is a start. Led ...

A computer simulation tool may help plan treatment for certain patients with recurrent glioblastoma. A computer simulation, NovoTAL, that optimizes therapeutic delivert in two orthogonal directions to ...

NEW YORK — If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it. The idea that the universe is a simulation sounds ...