Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

This year at McGill, I have the privilege to teach an upper-level class on the Anthropology of the Self in which we explore evolutionary, historical, cross-cultural, neurocognitive, and philosophical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do We Live In a Simulation?Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else's computer may come down to advanced AI research—or ...

We’ve found lots of “habitable” worlds but we don’t know what factors are needed for life. There are lots of reasons to search for planets around other stars—exoplanets. A big one is to find other ...

"River is not a bad name for the body." (Origen of Alexandria, 184-253 CE) “Pots are fashioned from clay, but it’s the hollow that makes a pot a pot.” (Tao Te Ching.) “The fascist is he or she who ...