All such effects are ultimately grounded in mathematics, which provides a critical translation from the physical world to computer simulations ... needed to, for example, simulate a firestorm ...

Scientists and philosophers meet at the bleeding edge of simulation theory ... closed system of sentient artificial intelligences, for example—the entire Kipping calculation is voided.

The math is actually pretty simple: the odds are nearly infinity to one that we are all living in a computer simulation. One very strong argument against this unsettling theory is that a computer ...