Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see.

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

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 ...

(The Conversation) — In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...

What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

More than 20 years ago, futurist intellectual Nick Bostrom upended the psyches of tech bros the world around when he proposed in a 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper that we all may be living in a ...

World models will power numerous domains, such as visual reasoning and simulation, planning for embodied agents, and real-time interactive entertainment." Friends, it can be hard to know what's ...

The best theory physicists have for the birth of the universe makes no sense. It goes like this: In the beginning—the very, if not quite veriest, beginning—there’s something called quantum foam. It’s ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

A shocking theory that claims our world ended in 2012, and humanity has been living in a simulation ever since, has regained online popularity. The theory was born out of the ancient prophecy ...