Philosopher Nick Bostrom brought simulation theory and AI superintelligence into the public psyche — and now he has a new ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living ...

A simulated tour at Metaverse Fashion Week in March 2022 hosted by Decentraland, a 3D virtual world platform. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images) There’s a new creation story going around. In the ...

The reality we understand and interact with daily might, according to some scientists, be nothing more than an elaborate ...

If you’re interested in VR, you’ve probably thought at least once or twice about the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we might actually already be living in a virtual reality world. Many people are ...

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In 1999, box office hit The Matrix introduced a wider audience to an age-old philosophical problem: how do you know what you're experiencing is real? The rest of this article is behind a paywall.

Between all of the Die Hard jokes, we bet you didn’t expect Rick and Morty to dive into simulation theory and organized religion. That’s exactly the balancing act “Rick: A Mort Well Lived” pulls.

Information could become the fifth state of matter alongside gas, plasma, liquid, and solid states. A scientist has proposed ...

There’s a new creation story going around. In the beginning, someone booted up a computer. Everything we see around us reflects states of that computer. We are artificial intelligences living in an ...

The universe is full of fascinating physics that have been experimentally confirmed but are still far from fully explained. In an unpublished paper, circa 2018, titled The P2P Simulation Hypothesis ...