Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.hen I was a kid, a long time ago, I went to Sunday school. I was fascinated by the stories; the battles, magic, kings and queens, quests and defeats, global floods, being swallowed by a whale and other fantastic apocalyptic visions.
It all began with a word. So the story goes. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This verse in the Gospel of John of the New Testament is often interpreted as emphasising the divinity of Jesus Christ, identifying him as the “word”, existing from the beginning with God and being God. I like to interpret it with a little extra twist. The Word was through which God created the universe and communicated with humanity.
In Judaism, creation was spoken into existence too. “And God said, let there be light.” God’s word brought about the creation of the universe. In ancient Egyptian mythology, the god Ptah is said to have created the universe through his heart and his word. You know what makes the current iterations of artificial intelligence so good, so relatable, so useful? The technology has cracked the language code. Something non-human has cracked the essential operating system of humans. It speaks to us like it is one of us. It understands us even though we haven’t been clear in our prompts.
Our most significant and culturally impactful stories have not only been accepted and believed but even expected to have come from somewhere else, somewhere non-human. Something beyond us but that knows us and loves us and guides us better than we ever could ourselves. Who is creating the world for us now? What stories will be told and by whom?