Earlier this week, I took five-yearl old parakeet Sunny Jewel to the vet because her bottom was bulging to the size of a big avocado pit. The vet was unable to prescribe anything for her, so I had to decide whether to put her down, although otherwise she seemed normal - I played god and decided to put her down.
This reminded me of the Four Last Things,
The Unifying Singularity and the Divine Algorithm of Life: Does God have an angelic being in charge of an Algorithm to decide what happens to an infinitity of inanimate and animate objects?
The Algorithm of Life vs. The Divine
An Algorithm of Life, usually means the mathematical patterns found in nature—the Fibonacci sequence in shells or the binary-like code of DNA. From a theological perspective, if there is a "Creator’s Algorithm," it differs from AI because it includes agency and grace.
AI operates on probability and data.In John 6:44 Jesus said to the. crowds:
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draw him,
and I will raise him on the last day.
It is written in the prophets:
They shall all be taught by God.
Everyone who listens to my Father and learns from him comes to me.
Not that anyone has seen the Father
except the one who is from God;
he has seen the Father.
Amen, amen, I say to you,
whoever believes has eternal life.
I am the bread of life.
Your ancestors ate the manna in the desert, but they died;
this is the bread that comes down from heaven
so that one may eat it and not die.
I am the living bread that came down from heaven;
whoever eats this bread will live forever;
and the bread that I will give
is my Flesh for the life of the world
The "draw" Jesus mentions suggests a personal, non-algorithmic pull toward the divine that defies simple logic or calculation.
The last few minutes of Sunny Jewel's life on earth
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