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Physicists claim proof on whether we’re in a simulation

Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and ...

Gravity May Be Key Evidence That Our Universe Is a Simulation, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests

If true (and it’s a pretty big “if”), Vopson’s new gravitational study would shake the foundations of the currently accepted view of the universe. In his paper, Vopson writes that his new work could ...
Futurism

Columbia Professor: There’s a 50% Chance We’re Living in a Simulation

In an influential 2003 paper, University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom laid out the possibility that our reality is a computer simulation dreamed up by a highly advanced civilization. In the ...
The New Yorker

What Are the Odds We Are Living in a Computer Simulation?

Last week, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and other cutting-edge companies, took a surprising question at the Code Conference, a technology event in California. What, a ...
Futurism

Professor: Total Surveillance Is the Only Way to Save Humanity

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 ...
Daily Express

Are humans living in a simulation? Experts deliver DEFINITIVE answer on decades-old theory

Arguments that we live in a simulated world have been thrown around for centuries. French philosopher René Descartes originally theorised about the brain-in-a-vat in his 1641 'Meditations on First ...
Daily Express

Universe simulation alert: Why scientists should NEVER investigate ‘brain-in-a-vat’ theory

15:35, Tue, Aug 13, 2019 Updated: 15:50, Tue, Aug 13, 2019 Theories our universe is actually a simulation have been posed for centuries. French philosopher René Descartes originally theorised about ...