Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe ...

Researchers at Western Sydney University in Australia have teamed up with tech giants Intel and Dell to build a massive supercomputer intended to simulate neural networks at the scale of the human ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has shifted from late-night dorm debate to a live question in physics and philosophy. A growing body of work now treats the “simulation ...

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Here’s why some people believe we’re living in a computer simulation of reality – like a giant video game in which we’re all the characters.

What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe — and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a giant computer? In a new paper published in the journal AIP ...

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