A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer ...

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The simulation hypothesis is a modern attempt to use logic and observations about technology to finally answer these ...

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

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