This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. It might be human nature, especially for those who don’t look to religion for answers, to try to come up with a theory of ...

What if your reality was nothing more than a complex computer simulation? And if you were just a program on someone else’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers say it's impossible to use algorithmic computation to generate everything in our universe. The possibility that our ...

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 ...

What is the appeal of the Simulation Hypothesis? Is it really that the world may be a sophisticated illusion, or does it have more to do with psychological and cultural factors?

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