Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the idea of modern simulation theory was popularized by The Matrix in 1999, another film released just months after it ...

In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a virtual reality, created ...

Editor’s Note: Rizwan Virk, who founded Play Labs @ MIT, is the author of “The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics Agree We Are in a ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Rizwan Virk, Arizona State University (THE CONVERSATION) In the most ...