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For a long time I have been interested in the intersection between science and religion, or more precisely, the interplay between faith and logic. Computers are realizations of theoretical machines which obey strictly defined rules which can be individually examined, whereas organized religion is a manifestation of a culture's believes and hopes and basic theological questions. Whereas computers can easily be constructed/instructed to determine the unknown through a series of procedures, such determining the nth digit of e, the logical tools upon which they are constructed struggle to satisfactorily answer questions for the general population regarding the nature of the universe's formation or what lies beyond this life.
This project is a small, feeble attempt at examining one aspect of the situation. The goal, if there was such a thing, was to see the effect watching a computer emulate the religion I was raised in had upon me. After completing the development of the code and setting up the terminal,
several uncompleted thoughts came to mind, each a component for rumination/reverberation for my time.
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