Humans evolved from Machines

Originally posted by The Parallelogram
God may not be the progenitor of Mankind, but rather our reason for existing-- to one day create, or as a species to become, the Divine.
[edit on 6-3-2008 by The Parallelogram]

It's in the ether, of course, but the relationships between God, Man and Machine have been taxing my imagination for a month or so now.

Through history, as man has discovered more about his own internal workings, he has often found analogies in his own creations. For a century, throughout the wonders of the Industial era (which coincided roughly with modern anatomical study), the heart was like "a pump" and later "an engine", though these descriptions fall far short of the truth as I'm sure any heart specialist could explain. In the last half-century, the brain was "like a computer", because by determining how a computer must function, it was revealed that our own thought processes were similarly comprised, though on a much swifter and more exotic level.

Now we have the potential for creating an artificial immune system which may one day form an essential subroutine in any android robot we may feel tempted to create.

The human form, from its inner recesses to its outermost extremities, seems to us to be the ideal physical form. It has evolved - like the Ferarri evolved from the Penny Farthing bicycle, like the robotic machines in a nuclear power plant will (possibly) evolve into Data-like positronic-brained entities - from a basic amoeba.

And, yes, we are machines. Dogs are machines, too. And swans and the mighty redwood tree.

My question is, were we constructed? Might God be a super-mechanic? Are we the carbon-based construct of a silicon-based creator, left here, possibly abandoned, to fend for ourselves? Have we evolved through reconstruction and adaptation in the only way possible; the way that has been imprinted on our CPUs which have guided our nano-immune systems?

And are our own current silicon-based constructs the anscestors of the inheritors of our legacy? Will our robot bases on far-flung planets where man may never tread, themselves evolve into conscious beings and rule their worlds while man achieves his ultimate goal - a merger with the Cosmic All; a oneness that absolves our race of further participation, other than guidance and observation, in the physical world.

And will our robots come to know us as their God and dream of their own ascention into deity, just as we will by then have done; just as our builders and engineers have already done many millennia ago?