A scientist proposes a new law of physics suggesting the universe may be a digital simulation, linking physics, biology, and ...

Do We Live In a Simulation? Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology.

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

Are we inhabitants of a computational construct rather than a mind-independent, “base” reality? The simulation question ...

Some scientists argue that mathematically it’s far more likely we live in a computer simulation than base reality.

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 ...