I fall back on Arthur C Clarke's, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." If computers are arcane magical machines then let's p

I fall back on Arthur C Clarke's, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." If computers are arcane magical machines then let's project onto them our fantasies. This particular fantasy of God playing puppet master, or reality being a simulation, is really old. It's an old fantasy and we have found a new medium to project it onto.