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In a June 2026 interview, Bostrom - who formalized the simulation argument - suggested that unusually influential lives (he named figures like Musk and Trump) are more likely under many simulation scenarios, since…
Melvin Vopson, whose second law of infodynamics the map already carries as evidence for a computational universe, published 'From Connectome to Cognition: Building the First Digital Organism' in IPI Letters in…
Physicist Melvin Vopson (University of Portsmouth) published further work on the 'second law of infodynamics' in Entropy (May 18, 2026), arguing that information entropy in systems tends to stay constant or…
In a March 2026 post that spread widely, Elon Musk recounted asking a top physicist and a top computer scientist the odds we live in a simulation and getting '0%' and '100%' simultaneously - quipping it was 'like a…
In December 2025 SFI professor David Wolpert published in the Journal of Physics: Complexity the first mathematically precise definition of what it would mean for one universe to simulate another - and showed that…
In the December 2025 Journal of Physics: Complexity, David Wolpert introduced a mathematically precise definition of one universe simulating another, grounded in the physical Church–Turing thesis.
In a paper in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics (Mir Faizal et al., 2025), physicists argue that because the deepest level of physical reality rests on non-algorithmic, non-computable understanding,…
Franco Vazza's 2025 paper assesses the information-energy cost of simulating the cosmos and concludes the power required is incompatible with known physics, rendering a full simulation 'nearly impossible.' It…
Drawing on computability theory (Kleene's second recursion theorem), an analysis associated with Santa Fe Institute's David Wolpert argues it is mathematically possible for a universe to be simulated — even…
A UBC Okanagan team published a proof (Journal of Holography Applications in Physics, 2025) arguing that a fully simulated universe is not merely unlikely but impossible, because physical reality rests on a kind of…
In a peer-reviewed AIP Advances paper, University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson extended his 'second law of infodynamics' to argue that gravity emerges as an entropic information force — a pressure to…
A peer-reviewed paper by Arkady Bolotin argues that the holographic principle — the idea that a region's 3D content can be encoded on its 2D boundary, like a hologram — follows from physical space having only a…
Tom Campbell, a retired NASA physicist and author of the 'My Big TOE' trilogy, proposed five variations on the double-slit experiment intended to detect whether observation — and thus consciousness — renders…
In his 2003 Philosophical Quarterly paper 'Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?', Oxford's Nick Bostrom argued that at least one of three propositions must hold: civilizations almost always go extinct before…
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