A simulated tour at Metaverse Fashion Week in March 2022 hosted by Decentraland, a 3D virtual world platform. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images) There’s a new creation story going around. In the ...

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

Simulation theory proposes that our reality is a sophisticated computer simulation, raising profound questions about the nature of consciousness and existence. Simulation theory is a fascinating ...

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into ...

Is this reality, or just something that feels real? Simulation Theory argues that our universe behaves exactly like a ...

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 ...

For the past few weeks, simulation theory has been spreading across TikTok. A growing number of TikTokers are signing on to — or at least considering — the idea that our world is a giant, Matrix-like ...

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, "The Matrix," a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn't real. It's a virtual reality, created ...

There are words, and many metaphors, one could use to describe simulation theory: the belief, popularized two decades ago by “The Matrix,” that the life we’re living — the people we know, the ...

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 ...

If a stranger told you the whole world was a fraud and you were living in a computer simulation, would you believe them? Movies don’t often choose their moments, so it’s a happy accident that two ...

There’s a new creation story going around. In the beginning, someone booted up a computer. Everything we see around us reflects states of that computer. We are artificial intelligences living in an ...