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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...