The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue.

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

A team of physicists led by Mir Faizal argues the universe cannot be simulated, saying reality includes non-computable truths beyond any algorithm or AI model ...

The odds suggest humans are almost certainly living in a simulation, according to Nick Bostrom’s simulation trilemma and ...

Yampolskiy continues this tradition of exploring the boundaries of a possible simulation and specifically exploring ways to ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

I was invited by the American Humanist Association to present the arguments of my paper “Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis” at the national conference this past weekend. It was fun: I met a ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Elon Musk and others find it plausible that our experiences result from events in a computer simulation, just like the characters in the Matrix movies. An alternative view, supported by both common ...