Maybe the world we live in our whole lives inside isn’t the real one, maybe it’s more like a big video game, or the movie ...

For years, the idea that we might be living inside a vast computer program has drifted from philosophy seminars into blockbuster movies and Reddit threads. Now a group of theoretical physicists say ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Such conversations may seem flippant. But ever since Nick Bostrom of the University of Oxford ...

But the argument does no such thing. Bostrom is very open to the possibility that simulations are physically impossible; this is one reason that a simulation may never be created and why Bostrom’s ...

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 ...