God's Debris and The Last Question: Open Source as God Revisited

A while back I wrote a thought experiment entitled "Open Source as God: A Religious Thought Exercise". I ran across another thought experiment called God's Debris by kooky cartoonist Scott Adams of "Dilbert" fame which says some similar things to what I said in my entry.

"Think about this," he continued. "As we speak, engineers are building the Internet to link every part of the world in much the same way as a fetus develops a central nervous systems. Virtually no one questions the desirability of the Internet. It seems that humans are born with the instinct to create it and embrace it. The instinct of beavers is to build dams; the instinct of humans is to build communication systems."

"Humanity is developing a sort of global eyesight as millions of video cameras on satellites, desk tops and street corners are connected to the Internet. In your lifetime it will be possible to see almost anything on the planet from any computer. And society's intelligence is merging over the Internet, creating, in effect, a global mind that can do vastly more than any individual mind. Eventually everything that is known by one person will be available to all. A decision can be made by the collective mind of humanity and instantly be communicated to the body of society."

"Are you saying we're evolving into God?"

"I'm saying we're the building blocks of God, in the early stages of reassembling."

"So, you're saying God blew himself to bits -- I guess that was the
Big Bang -- and now he's piecing himself back togather?" I asked.

"He is discovering the answer to his only question."

As far as I can tell, God's Debris is only available in eBook form. For the most part, I found it to be too simplistic but it was interesting to me to find another statement of what I was trying to articulate in my own thought experiment. Before I go on with my own thought experiment, I'm going to have to divert anyone who hasn't read Isaac Asimov's The Last Question to this page to read it. I warn you that reading any further now could spoil the ending at worst, or not make any sense at best if you haven't read The Last Question.

I'd like to extend my thought experiment to the following, which could be consistent with everything I've said so far, as well as Scott Adams' thought experiment and The Last Question: What if the nature of God is that God creates the universe but destroys himself in the process? Then the purpose and the nature of the universe is to create God. A cycle, as it were.

I enjoy going on these tangents every once in a while. It's fascinating to be able to think about a concept of God that is not inconsistent with a lot of major religions, but is also theoretically acceptable to someone with a strictly logical/rational worldview. In college I briefly thought about creating an independent major trying to reconcile science and religion. It still fascinates me.