As one who has done as a bit of video game programming, I find the beginning of the Book of John to be rather interesting. Although there is a beginning in the book of Genesis this one starts off a bit different putting emphasis on the "Word of God".
”1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.”
Ordinarily one might wonder how the words can be God, but if you were an artificial being this would be quite literal. Programming languages use many words, and are languages themselves. Programming an AI to move continually but stop before it hits a wall at a basic level would look like something like this (pseudo code)
"If (distanceToWall <5) {
mySpeed = 0
}
else {
mySpeed = 1
}”
Of course the real programming would be a lot more intricate, but I'm pretty sure most of you can understand what this does even if you're not a programmer. It's a basic question the AI would ask itself continually and choose one of 2 options depending on wether the original questionis true or false. As humans minds would signal our body to stop if were close enough to a wall aswell.
This leads me to the possibility that this particular part of John foretells man's creation of Artificial Life since Mans beginning already had happened in the book of Genesis and there is a second beginning in the Book of John.
1 (An A.I.s) Beginning was the word,
and the word was with "God" (Man "God" knowing a programing language),
and the Word was God (because the coded words are what is responsible for its being)
Verses 2-4 speak of "He" who in later verses is alluded as the Creator/So who creates through him which interestingly enough would make sense if you assume the relationship of God and He/Him as Man(Ai's creator) and Technology or God(Man's creator) and Spirit
2 He(spirit/tech) was with God(God/Man"God”) in the beginning.
3 Through him (spirit/tech) all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him(spirit/tech) was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.” (interestingly enough the "light of mankind" can be seen as the spirit or the literal lights as technology tends to produce a lot of lights
There are more verses apart from this that if read with man and technology in mind kind of make sense too, such as not being a natural descendant but being born of God.
Lastly even if the Book of John was not talking about Man and Ai, the fact that it says in Genesis that we were made in the image of God would suggest that we perhaps would be capable of creation ourselves as something made in the image of another would share certain qualities and thus when man creates life it might have similarities to how God created it, even if not exactly the same process.
