What if the world around us was not real? Could it be that the screen you’re looking at, the air you’re breathing, the ground beneath your feet and even the smallest particles that make up your body ...

A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the notion that the universe we live in might in fact be a computer simulation run by our descendants. While that seems far-fetched, perhaps even ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Many philosophers and scientists have pondered if we live in a simulated universe, and University of ...

I was invited by the American Humanist Association to present the arguments of my paper “Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis” at the national conference this past weekend. It was fun: I met a ...

The Drake equation is one of the more famous reckonings in science. It calculates the likelihood that we are not alone in the universe by estimating the number of other intelligent civilizations in ...

The simulation theory is an old belief that everything we know and love is just part of a computer-run simulation. It's a belief that relies on everything we know being part of an advanced virtual ...