There are words, and many metaphors, one could use to describe simulation theory: the belief, popularized two decades ago by “The Matrix,” that the life we’re living — the people we know, the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Matrix" may have been right all along. The idea that we are all living in a virtual simulation of reality formed the basis of the 1999 cult film, and now some philosophers and an increasing ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the 1990s, there was a strange trend where two movies about the same topic came out in the same year. For example, Volcano and Dante’s Peak, both movies about killer volcanos, hit theaters in 1997.