When reading the Bible, it would appear the line of separation between the temporal and the spiritual was far thinner in antiquity than we believe it to be today. What if it isn’t? What if we are just not paying attention to it anymore? If someone sets a campfire in CO high country on a dry July day, pays no attention to it and walks away, is it of no consequence?

In simplest terms, the smallest unit of information measurement in classical computing is a bit. It is a binary. 1 or 0. On or off. The smallest unit of information measurement in quantum computing is a qubit. Through a made-up sounding term called superposition, they can hold multiple states simultaneously. For example, both 1 and 0.

Everything launches from there. Classical computing is built on physics and quantum computing is built on quantum mechanics. Unfortunately for me, I don’t understand any of this stuff. I’ve tried reading white papers on it, and 5 minutes in I start thinking about how much I’d rather drink an ice cold Coors and go fishing. Best as I can tell, quantum mechanics is the search for understanding the world around us at its most fundamental levels. Sure seems to me that an argument could be made that it is a science that most approaches this temporal/spiritual line of separation, not through religion and faith, but through science and reason.

David Deutsch, a UK physicist, was credited by Hartmut Neven who runs Google’s AI quantum computing program for the idea that successfully creating a quantum computer would in essence prove the multiverse theory and then made the claim that the Google AI quantum computer could be processing computations so quickly because it might be accessing data from parallel universes.

What if “many worlds” or the “multiverse” are simply scientific terms relating to realms on the other side of this temporal boarder? Terms physicists are applying to concepts long since discovered by the religious.

The Jastrow quote comes to mind.

“For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance, he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.”

Christians believe that God has spoken to us through His word and continues to interact with His creation through His Holy Spirit. God don’t need no AI. This begs the question, who would?

These days when we have doors locked in our homes and we hear a loud banging from the other side, we don’t fling the door wide open come what may. If these devices are communicating with other things in other places, as their creators hypothesize, the question becomes with who or with what? We should be aware of what is happening here or the realm of conversation may quickly shift from Technology to Eschatology.