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 ...

"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 ...

You can stop looking for glitches in the Matrix—it’s finally been proven that our universe is not merely a simulation running on some powerful alien civilization’s supercomputer. An international team ...

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 ...

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 ...