Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan have published a mathematical argument that, they say, rules out ...

Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

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Co-workers do some armchair theorizing on statistics. By John Hodgman Joseph writes: A co-worker told me that there is a 50-50 chance we are living in a computer simulation. I agree, because ...

Conspiracy theories are nothing new on TikTok, and another one of them has gone viral, offering alleged proof we are all living in a simulated universe created and controlled by some unknown power we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I track enterprise software application development & data management. AI is all about logic, but not all of it is straightforward ...