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 ...

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 more ...

Some experts think we are living in a computer simulation and that our reality is instead like a video game. But could we ever know for sure?

The hypothesis that you are just a computer simulation is far less plausible than that you operate in reality via your senses.

Let’s start with the assumption that ‘computer simulation’ means we’re living in a universe where all of space and time is based on discrete bits of data like a computer, with 1s and 0s.

Key points There is no good evidence or argument that people are living in a computer simulation. There is abundant evidence that people are real, living in the real world. Therefore, the real ...

A philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might actually be living inside a computer-generated universe that you could call, The Lattice.

A philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might actually be living inside a computer-generated universe that you could call, The Lattice.

Our lives contains several clues that suggest we're merely characters in an advanced virtual world, a physics at the University of Portsmouth claims - and he's planning an experiment to prove it.

If we were in a hyper-realistic simulation, à la The Matrix, would it be possible to escape? Computer scientist Roman Yampolskiy has outlined in a new paper how we might escape, and what that ...