The idea that reality might be a computer simulation has moved from philosophical thought to scientific discussion. Advances ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

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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 ...

Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

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