Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of Portsmouth scientist ...

AI expert Dr Roman Yampolskiy explained on Diary of a CEO podcast with Steven Bartlett the reason why he's 'almost certain' ...

In the new edition of my book, The Simulation Hypothesis, released in July, I’ve updated my estimate of how likely we are to be in a simulation to approximately 70%, thanks to recent AI developments.

In the hit movie trilogy the Matrix, Keanu Reeves discovers his entire life is actually a computer simulation and he’s really just living in a tank hooked up to a computer. A British physicist has ...

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

More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed ...

Disclaimer: I am a fan of Elon Musk. I like what I know of him personally. I admire his courage and vision (open-source Tesla technology!). And I have no doubt that his IQ is close to twice what I'm ...

Now and then, you come across something so strange, so perfectly offbeat, that it makes you pause and wonder if reality is as solid as it seems. Maybe it’s someone who looks exactly like the person ...

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