The idea that reality might be a computer simulation has moved from philosophical thought to scientific discussion. Advances in technology and physics-global tech spending at $4.5 trillion in 2024 ...

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 ...

Much like Neo in The Matrix, one computer scientist explores how humanity could hack its way out of its own simulation.

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 ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature–one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...

For more than two decades, some scientists have pondered the possibility that life as we know is actually an unfathomably complex simulation. While some suggest looking for “glitches” to find evidence ...

More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a ...

(NewsNation) — Does billionaire tech guru Elon Musk really believe we’re living in a computer simulation? He’s at least considering the possibility, says the author of a new biography on Musk, the ...

The bold question-askers at What If investigate what life would be like if we’re living in a computer simulation.