The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

Elon Musk, mega-rich CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, outlined his argument for why it is overwhelmingly likely that we are actually all living in an advanced civilization’s computer simulation and why that’s ...

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 ...

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...

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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 ...