God Is the Algorithm

By Anthony Van

Have you ever had something spinning around in your head endlessly, like an ethereal alien sprite with a message of enlightenment trying to escape your brain? It keeps you awake at night and during the day you're uncommunicative because you're zoned out meditating on something elusively cogent and weighty. The only cure is to write it down. And as you write it's like the fog clearing or the misted window being wiped to provide clarity of vision. That's why I wrote. I'm sorry if it's no clearer for you, but it helped me a lot.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anthony Van
• Release date: Jun 25, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463945292

Anthony Van

What does a retired teacher do? Especially a teacher with a hyperactive imagination and ingrained work habits. Well this one writes. And being a Christian, each novel I have written necessarily is pieced together from a Christian perspective.I have a broad range of interests which include science and technology, mathematics, travel, sports and the interrelationship of people. Much of what intrigues me about people is that some pursue truth with the determination of a bloodhound while others almost ignore existential ideas and while away their short time spent on earth being distracted by people or pleasures or possessions or power.Writing is a hobby. It allows me to research and self educate, and it also permits me to refine my perspectives of concepts existential and theological.

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God is the Algorithm

-an essay

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Copyright Anthony Van 2017

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God is the algorithm?

And Something Else-an addendum

Forward

I have to start by saying this essay began in my head at about three am in the morning. I structured it and edited it (mentally) for about two hours in a prone, sleep deprived condition before deciding that I should probably write it down. At the time it seemed coherent and logical, but only time will tell if the actual written words come together with any real meaning or impact.

To have any hope of remembering my thoughts in the morning I rehearsed some of the key chapters that could be addressed (and were being addressed at the time in my somnolent ramblings).

Further to this, I have to say that, in the end, my hyperactive brain could have resulted from that fourth cup of coffee during the day, and this may all come to nought as it is examined in the harsh light of day. It will not be comprehensive, but rather a glance at some cogent possibilities.

I will start with some disclaimers:

I am not a scientist, though I love science, read lots of science and studied some science at a tertiary level.

Similarly, I am not a mathematician or a philosopher, though I love maths and philosophy, read a fair bit about both and studied some maths and philosophy at tertiary level.

Also, I ask for your forgiveness if my writing sounds a bit pretentious or if it seems like I’m stroking my own ego. There probably