Simulation art

Researchers calculate that it would take more computing power and storage than actually exists to create a digital reality.

Enter the mind of a machine in Norimichi Hirakawa's massive video sculpture, 'The Indivisible (Prototype No. 1).'

Do you take the red pill or the blue pill?

The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous results that debate whether the universe is a computer simulation—a concept that some scientists actually take seriously. Since a pivotal 2016 debate at the American Museum of Natural History, the idea has bounced from the scientific realm to the sphere of pop culture.

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