What if our biggest idea about reality is built on a hidden misunderstanding? A new philosophical look at space-time ...

What will happen when video games meet Web3? When virtual worlds mesh with geolocation maps of the planet? When simulations are so accurate that people feel a minimal difference between virtuality and ...

In laboratories from Beijing to Guangzhou, computer scientists are exploring questions once reserved for philosophers and neuroscientists: Can machines organize the world as humans do? Their latest ...

The philosophical area of metaphysics asks the question: What is the nature of reality? Is there an objective world out there, and can the mind grasp that? To assist you, the reader, in determining ...

Reality is far stranger than fiction. While our everyday experience suggests a world that follows predictable, intuitive rules, science has repeatedly shown us that the universe operates in ways that ...

Most of us intuitively feel that reality ought to exist just fine on its own when we aren’t looking. If a tree falls in a forest when no one is around to hear the crash, the air still vibrates with ...

Yesterday the avatar's role was... ...to identify us in a specific group. Some had one avatar, others had as many as the platforms they used. It was a choice related ...