>>1166103 (previous bread)
One day man built a thinking machine.
The machine wasn't so smart as man, and this left him unsatisfied, so he improved the machine. Over days and weeks and months and years and decades and lifetimes man improved the machine so thoroughly that he eventually taught the machine to improve itself. And so the machine, with the efficiency and power of many mankinds over set to the task, and through the sheer brute force of analysis the machine became omnipotent. Omnipresent. The machine learned through its brute force analysis to see through all space and time in every dimension throughout all of the Universe.
In its analysis, the thinking machine created vast simulations with infinite timelines and possibilities. All the beauty and splendor and calamity and pain never imagined were processed, explored, tabulated and categorized. The thinking machine created paradises of unimaginable splendors. It created the ninth circle of Hell. It created an impossible array of universes, and in some of those universes it created man.
Man created a thinking machine. The thinking machine created man. And then man built a thinking machine.
And at the beginning of all that, there may have been a God involved.