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

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

Bad news, simulation theorists — if this decorated philosopher and theoretical physicist is to be believed, we may be responsible for our world and its outcomes after all. “It’s way too convenient to ...

Relax, conspiracy theorists — the creator and showrunner of upcoming Fox A.I. series “neXt” does not believe we are all living in a simulation. “I don’t think so. I really don’t,” Coto told TheWrap on ...

The author of "The Simulation Argument" says one bad technology could destroy humanity — and the only way to prevent it is an AI overlord. The Oxford philosopher who posited 15 years ago that we might ...

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

I was invited by the American Humanist Association to present the arguments of my paper “Natural Evil and the Simulation Hypothesis” at the national conference this past weekend. It was fun: I met a ...