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

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

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

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis was deemed to be un-testable in philosophy and science and often dismissed as pure science fiction.

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 ...

Darth Vader does not say “Luke, I am your father” in The Empire Strikes Back. The ghosts in Field of Dreams do not command “If you build it, they will come.” Forrest Gump’s iconic line is not “Life is ...

A new essay explores which conditions must be met for consciousness to exist. At least one of them can't be found in a computer. Would it be desirable for artificial intelligence to develop ...

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international researchers. The theory that the universe could be a computer programme has been ...

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 ...

What if we're just puppets in a vast simulation? At least, that's what one physicist thinks he's proved. From The Matrix to Elon Musk, the idea that the universe in which we live is nothing more than ...