Professor of cognitive science Donald Hoffman presents his theory that the world we perceive is a virtual reality. Hoffman ...

Have you ever felt like something about reality just doesn’t add up? That strange sense of déjà vu, those impossible coincidences, or the eerie feeling that you’re being watched by unseen eyes? What ...

Artificial intelligence has made simulation theory easier to imagine. A computer can now produce a recognizable face that never existed, imitate a human voice, construct a navigable environment, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Computer code appears during an immersive reality screening of the 1999 movie 'The Matrix,' held in Inglewood, Calif., on May 28, ...

If you’re interested in VR, you’ve probably thought at least once or twice about the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we might actually already be living in a virtual reality world. Many people are ...

The simulated universe theory implies that our universe, with all its galaxies, planets and life forms, is a meticulously programmed computer simulation. In this scenario, the physical laws governing ...

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 ...

What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue. Reading time 3 minutes How do we know we’re not ...