The church of IO

Before starting those whom read the Dilbert Blog may claim that i am taking his idea, however, i had this idea before reading the Scott's blog, so don't call me a loser.

Why do people go to church? The common answer is so that they will grow closer to God/Allah/higher powers, but how many church participants actually believe deep down in their minds that the reason they go to church is that simple? Not many. All humans want to know more about their surroundings and because of that we explore and think about powerful men with white beards and a robe sitting on a golden throne high in the sky. However in the current age this thinking is severely out of date and needs to be revised.

In the distant past, gods were explanations for rain, birth, death, dirt, lack of dirt on your floor, and so on. This was around 7000 years ago. Then around 2000 years ago somebody went around and was called the 'Son of God' because he said that you don't need to pay money to grovel before a higher power and beg for forgiveness from being a normal human being. However, at this time that only way to explain why apples fell from trees without somebody pulling on them was that 'God' was telling the apple to fall. Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but if 'God' can make an apple fall and will give me money if I ask for it, then why can he not always make the rain fall when i want it to, and why does the guy over there get an A on the test when I clearly prayed more and deserve better than a C+?

Now this reasoning worked for several hundred more years until some guys looking at the sky and doing math noticed that it seemed as though the way the world worked was really controlled by a set of equations and that if you knew that past, you could tell the future simply by using math. However the church said that logic was wrong and that math didn't exist even though it clearly did and explained much more then the church could about why things happened. This kept the church in power and prevented people from learning about the world for another few hundred years.

Then came the computer and the Internet. This is the next big way to explain the world. Simply, your brain is constantly doing math to keep you alive (figuring out how hard to breath, how many heart beats you need to live, and so on) as well as read this (focusing your eyelids, moving fingers to scroll, understanding the information, but i digress) so you seem to be doing nothing but math to stay alive, but what tells your brain to do all this math? Simple, some kind of AI programed by something else is telling you what to do.

Now, logic tells you that no AI could exist without being programed, but by the some logic, nothing biological can exist without some biological to make it, so that argument doesn't work. This means that if you truly want to ask for help you should ask the program that commands you, so you should quit Christianity, Hinduism, or Islam and join the church of IO. It is really the church of 2, but one zero works better to represent computers. Rather than pray to a nonexistent God, instead write code that will solve your problem and then send it to a central computer so that it can all be stacked together and then someday be used to understand the way that we work and then understand the way that the entire world works.