The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

I remember the first time I saw Rodney Ascher’s Room 237, a truly unsettling series of interconnected theories about all the meanings hidden in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. All of the disparate, ...

If you feel like you're living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of ...

There's no questioning "The Matrix" is a great action movie. But there are lots of questions to be asked of those who take the movie's notion that we're living in a computer simulation seriously.

Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Are angels really AIs sent to monitor us on behalf of the programmers responsible for our creation? MIT computer scientist Rizwan Virk tackles these ...

Originally published on March 23, 2022. Philosopher David Chalmers is often asked whether the so-called real world we live in is actually a computer simulation created and run by a hidden, god-like ...

When The Matrix was released in 1999, the idea that we might be living inside a hyper-realistic video game or computer simulation that was indistinguishable from physical reality, what we now call the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Here’s how stressed out people are feeling these days: They don’t even believe that reality is reality anymore. Or they don’t want reality to be reality anymore. I blame ...