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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Some experts think we are living in a computer simulation and that our reality is instead like a video game. But could we ever know for sure?

Simulation theory is the "theoretical hypothesis" that what we perceive as reality "is actually an advanced, hyper-realistic computer simulation, possibly overseen by a higher being", said tech ...

At Cucalorus Connect in Wilmington, two UNCW professors explore the possibility we are in a computer simulation like that in the Matrix movie franchise.

The simulation hypothesis asserts that life as we know it - that reality - is actually just a simulation, perhaps a simulation that is housed in some great computer. Of course, as Marcello Truzzi ...

A philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might actually be living inside a computer-generated universe that you could call, The Lattice.