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 ...

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 are words, and many metaphors, one could use to describe simulation theory: the belief, popularized two decades ago by “The Matrix,” that the life we’re living — the people we know, the ...

The concept that we are all computer-generated characters occupying a world as real as the ones gamers explore on their PlayStation consoles isn't exactly a new one. As far back as 1999, Morpheus was ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

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 ...

A Glitch In the Matrix likely won’t convince you that you’re living in a simulation. But this strange new documentary—which premiered at Sundance Film Festival last weekend and is now available in ...

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, ...

You are stuck at home quarantined and you want to do some Arduino projects. The problem is you don’t have all the cool devices you want to use. Sure, you can order them, but the stores are slow ...

I couldn’t imagine that there would be a better year than 1999 for simulation-related entertainment. I was wrong. Many TV shows have flirted with the idea over the past few years (episodes of ...