Rizwan Virk

And so here I was telling them, well, the Quran describes this thing called the scroll of deeds.

It says you have these angels who sit there and write down all your good deeds and your bad deeds and even gives them names.

And then it says at the end, your book will be open.

Read it.

You yourself are sufficient as a reckoner by reading your own book.

And I said, okay, those are technological metaphors.

We don't think of books as technology, but it is.

I don't think they meant...

Which is why many of us in the techno-scientific world don't take religion seriously.

They didn't mean that they were like literally angels sitting there with feather pens writing things down.

But maybe what the essence of what they're trying to tell us is that everything is being recorded and we are going to replay it.

And the only way they could describe it to people 2,000 years ago is, oh, it's a book.

It's a record-keeping device.

And so angels are actually AI.

These angels are not angels.

They're just processes that are running, that are recording everything.

And then it gets replayed, not as a book, but as a holographic panoramic point of view.

And then turns out they have that same idea in the Bible.

There's the book of life where they write down who gets into heaven and who gets into hell.

And they say, your books will be opened and each of you will be judged according to your deeds.