The reality we understand and interact with daily might, according to some scientists, be nothing more than an elaborate ...

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For example, a team of theoretical physicists from Oxford University asserts there aren't enough atoms in the universe to create sufficient computing memory for storing a realistic simulation of ...

Or whether we’re living in a computer simulation, something proposed by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom and others, and maybe your stoned friend Chad last week.

Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could ...

As you can see, the thought is that a computer simulation can show the potential results of different treatment options. Sounds easy to build?

The simulation hypothesis, which was famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at ...

The hypothesis that you are just a computer simulation is far less plausible than that you operate in reality via your senses.

A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the possibility that our universe might be a computer simulation run by our descendants. Now, physicists have come up with a potential test to see if ...

Unlike the real-world hypothesis, the simulation hypothesis assumes that there is a computer simulation that is generating your experiences. Who produced the computer simulation that you are ...