A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer ...
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Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe ...
Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...