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Rhik Samadder

I asked AI about God. It asked me about myself instead

man with hands up and pixel frame — ‘If the truth is in fragments of all of them, this is our best chance of seeing it. I’m strangely nervous.’ Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian, Frame by Mathieu Labrecque

I remember my very first online search, back in 2001: “What is the meaning of life?”

I remember clicking through to a mysterious minimal website that told me all points of consciousness were facets of the divine wishing to perceive itself.

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