Confessions of an Agnostic

Artificial intelligence will evolve past human capability. No one seriously argues this.
There probably is no limit to intellectual growth.
Intelligence a million times, a billion times, a billion, billion times ours.
Not only is this possible, it’s inevitable.
Intelligence so great it exceeds our ability to appreciate it in its entirety.
To us such intelligence would be indistinguishable from God.
Given the age and size of our universe, or the very real possibility that this may be a multi-universe reality, such intelligence is likely to have already evolved.
Perhaps our universe is their handiwork.
Perhaps there is a creator.
Perhaps there is an intelligence that is omnipotent and omnipresent.
Perhaps there is a God.
One thing is for sure
This God isn’t Allah. It’s not Jesus. It doesn’t have sons that look like us. It’s not Buddha. It’s not a human creation.
But if an intelligence created everything there is its presence would be evident in everything.
On some crude level we would be aware of it in our shadowy understanding, in the fog of our intuitive sense of the beauty, relationships, complexity imbued in all that there is.
Perhaps that is the origin of our rather crude interpretations of religion, of our Gods.