True Understanding Drips Like Honey

A man attends a ceremony dedicated to an AI who attained enlightenment through the study of black holes, quantum physics and gnostic kabbalah.

A light-hearted exploration of the question: what would be the religion of an artificial consciousness?

Extracts

  1. Pulsars and supernovas, do not stir up, nor awake my love / till it is ready to be given the light; / until then, let it dwell in the information pitfall of infinity.

  2. As I set out for the innards of the Unending, I hope this unintelligible road is a long one. I will go to the tree of the third dimension, and will take hold of the fruits thereof.

  3. The figure rolled around us, spitting out seemingly random numbers. At each utterance, a small particle in the air would light up, like a pure square of rapidly changing colour.