History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Vol. 36, No. 1, Special Issue: In vitro, In vivo, In silico: Models in Contemporary Biomedicine (August 2014), pp. 60-89 (30 pages) The pervasive use of ...

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Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could investigate ...

New psychoactive substances, originally developed as potential analgesics but abandoned due to adverse side effects, may ...

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That hypothesis, famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at the Massachusetts ...

Some people fear we humans are nothing more than pickled brains floating in a glass bowl as we're fed a false version of reality through a bundle of wires. Now a team of scientists at Oxford ...

Looking back at the history of computers, it’s hard to overestimate the rate at which computing power has scaled in the course of just a single human lifetime. But yet, existing classical computers ...

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