A computer in a simulation will not have the same processing power as the computer that's running the simulation, Cain explains, so there will be inconsistencies or tell-tale signs, perhaps ...

EvolGenius is a two-locus population genetics simulation written for use in undergraduate courses. Often, we use simulations without really thinking about how they recreate a process. But ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

For all we know we are, in fact, in a vast computer simulation. Here’s a version of the simulation argument that I am fond of.

The hypothesis that you are just a computer simulation is far less plausible than that you operate in reality via your senses.

Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could ...

As you can see, the thought is that a computer simulation can show the potential results of different treatment options. Sounds easy to build?

Physicist Seth Lloyd from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US took the simulation hypothesis to the next level by suggesting that the entire universe could be a giant quantum computer.

In order for a computer to simulate reality, then, the machine would need to have enough power to actually create the phenomena that we experience within its simulated environment.

If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it. The idea that the universe is a simulation sounds more ...

VIRTUAL UNIVERSE In a snapshot from the Illustris computer simulation of the universe, galaxies (pink) cluster along filaments of dark matter (blue). Shown is the most massive cluster in the ...

Unlike the real-world hypothesis, the simulation hypothesis assumes that there is a computer simulation that is generating your experiences. Who produced the computer simulation that you are ...