If you feel like you're living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of ...

There's no questioning "The Matrix" is a great action movie. But there are lots of questions to be asked of those who take the movie's notion that we're living in a computer simulation seriously.

In 2003, Nick Bostrom blew minds with "Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?," a hugely influential philosophy paper positing that — you guessed it — our reality could actually be a computer ...

University of Portsmouth scientist Melvin Vopson, who studies the possibility that the universe might indeed be a digital facsimile, leans into the cinematic comparison. In an article published on ...

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Are angels really AIs sent to monitor us on behalf of the programmers responsible for our creation? MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk tackles these ...

Premiering at Sundance, the new doc “A Glitch in the Matrix” examines whether we are living in a simulation controlled by an advanced society, or if it’s all in people’s heads. Entertainment Critic ...

The concept that we are all computer-generated characters occupying a world as real as the ones gamers explore on their PlayStation consoles isn't exactly a new one. As far back as 1999, Morpheus was ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Here’s how stressed out people are feeling these days: They don’t even believe that reality is reality anymore. Or they don’t want reality to be reality anymore. I blame ...