Tag: philosophy

• Sinners in the hands of an angry GLaDOS

  It’s one of those nagging thoughts many of us have had: is our existence a reality or an illusion? Philosophers and scientists have grappled with the question, though today much of the discussion focuses on a related question: do we live in a computer simulation? In my (first hopefully of multiple) essays for Aeon magazine,…

  Matthew R. Francis

  January 21, 2014

  Aeon, Writing for Other Sites

  cosmology, nuclear physics, philosophy, simulations