Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

Here’s why some people believe we’re living in a computer simulation of reality – like a giant video game in which we’re all the characters.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of physicists has proven that the universe cannot be reduced to a simulation. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Physicist ...

The simulation hypothesis is an impressive logical and philosophical argument that has challenged our fundamental notions of reality.

It’s a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization’s supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically ...

The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formed—something that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 years—has now been solved by a team of astrophysicists whose findings are published in ...

Are we living in a simulated reality? If so, it has to be economically viable for whoever is running the machines.

I’ve started making my way (skeptically) through Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, and at the recommendation of a friend, I’ve also started keeping tabs on KurzweilAI, a Kurzweil-blessed site ...

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Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...