If we can model a fly brain, and run that fly in a sim, we might do it with us. We live in the age of the brain, and ...

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The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: For two decades, scientists have seriously considered whether we’re living in a simulated universe. A computer scientist at the University of ...

Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...

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 ...

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