Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu ...

A leading computer scientist believes the simulation theory, the idea that we live in a simulated reality, could actually ...

Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is getting lots of media attention recently. Is it the key to unlocking the secrets of reality, or ...

The idea that we might be living inside a vast computer simulation, much like in The Matrix, has fascinated philosophers and scientists for years. But a new study from researchers at the University of ...

In Heinlein’s tale, Mike was a companion, co-conspirator, and catalyst, a friend who could make us laugh even as he plotted ...

New Zealand doctor Orson Wedgwood argues that near-death experiences suggest Earth is a God-created simulation, testing human souls. His theory blends Christian beliefs with simulation theory.

You know that feeling when you walk into a room and immediately forget why you came in? Maybe you were there to fetch your keys. On your way to the room, you were thinking about grabbing your keys.

New Rutgers research suggests much of the seemingly endless waiting for complex medical care can be engineered away by recreating operations inside a computer and testing countless possible ...

Hadronization occurs when two or more quarks—the subatomic building blocks of matter—bind together through the strong nuclear force to form composite particles called hadrons. The most familiar ...

Hinging on the ideas of Copernicus, who concluded that Earth is not as unique as we think it is, two philosophers explored what this might mean for consciousness beyond our planet. They suggest that ...

As AI insinuates itself into every corner of our lives, many of us are growing inured to the push to digitize the whole world ...

Artificial intelligence researcher Cameron Berg chugged his drink when he spotted OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman at a party in 2024, and hustled over to ask the CEO whether he thought the emerging ...