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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 ...

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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 ...

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Just as a simulation of the weather is not windy or wet, a powerful computer simulation of you is unlikely to have your experiences. Computers might eventually acquire consciousness, but their ...

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