What if reality is not reality at all, but a simulation so advanced that no one inside it could ever tell the difference?

If you've heard of simulation theory -- the idea that our entire universe could be running inside of some sort of extra-dimensional computer -- there's a good chance you encountered it from a high ...

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 ...

Elon Musk can’t quite help himself. At a Tesla event Monday that was meant to be dedicated to explaining its autonomous driving technology to investors, the CEO dropped a reference to one of his ...

We’ve all been there. Somebody, maybe a friend of a friend who has nothing of relevance to add to the conversation, wonders aloud if this is all a simulation. It’s not exactly a reference to The ...

Have you ever wondered if you’re just a character in some elaborate simulation? You shake the thought off because you’re a real person, living a real-life, in a concrete reality. But can you be ...

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 ...

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 ...