In this video, we explore the simulation hypothesis, which posits that our reality may be a highly advanced digital simulation. This concept suggests that our memories and consciousness could be ...

Spoiler: You are not living in a simulation. Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the season two episode of The Twilight Zone (2019), “Downtime.” As our real-world ...

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 ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

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Now and then, you come across something so strange, so perfectly offbeat, that it makes you pause and wonder if reality is as solid as it seems. Maybe it’s someone who looks exactly like the person ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...

Is this planet just a rock floating through space? A result of some higher power? Or maybe just someone’s abandoned Sims game? Sometimes, it’s hard to say, especially when you witness something so ...

A computer model developed by researchers from Japan and Seattle's Allen Institute could lead to new methods for studying ...

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