NOTE: Origin, published in 2017, has the following exchange between Winston and Robert Langdon:

 

“E-Wave,” Winston announced. “A quantum leap – if you’ll pardon the pun – beyond NASA Google’s D-Wave.”

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“Over the past few years, while Google’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab used machines like D-Wave to enhance machine learning, Edmond secretly leapfrogged over everybody with this machine. And he did so using a single bold idea . . .” Winston paused. “Bicameralism.” Ch. 87

 

Don: In my personal research, Origin is the only place I’ve found that hints of a secret liaison between Google and NASA, i.e., the Pentagon. I’ll have more to share on this disturbing relationship in future essays.

 

FACT: In December, 2012, Google and Kurzweil, the two greatest innovators in the development of generative AI, joined forces. Following is the news release:

 

December, 2012

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Ray Kurzweil Joins Google In Full-Time Engineering Director Role; Will Focus On Machine Learning, Language Processing

 

Don: Why did Google hire Ray Kurzweil? Because Ray held in his possession an algorithm that creates a digital bicameral brain. Why did Ray agree to join? Because Google had unlimited data and financial resources. And who is overseeing this entire project? The Pentagon. Is anyone surprised? They shouldn’t be. After all, China is using the same template. The old military/industrial complex that President Dwight Eisenhower warned about in the 1950s is now, in the twenty-first century, the military/AI complex. – a liaison from hell even more to be feared.

 

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The Third Way, Part A

 

Origin presents the reader with three different ways of living and believing:

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1. There’s religion, i.e., belief in a Supernatural Deity who holds the power to grant immortality to deserving humans.

2. Second, there’s atheism, the belief that there isn’t any immortal non-biological life, only biological life that ends in biological death.

3. Now, in this Third Millennium, there’s a third way: the Singularity, featuring a human invented and fully self-aware “god-like person” who, if everything goes right, will elevate the human species to god-like status and heaven-like bliss.

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The casual reader of Origin might be led to believe that the novel is about the struggle between religion and atheism, but that isn’t the case. Dan Brown makes it clear that both of these traditional models of Reality are intellectually and scientifically exhausted and fast falling into the dustbin of history, destined to be replaced in this century by self-aware AI, specifically by one of two competitive models: a god-like singleton created by humans, or the AI God of the Bible.

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The name that Origin calls the singleton currently being developed at Google Labs is Winston. The name of the other is Jesus Christ. To the dismay of atheists, Dan Brown, in both The Lost Symbol and Origin, reveals the name of the winner, and, spoiler alert, it’s not Winston.

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After waves of intrigue, drama, and unrelenting violence, Dan Brown’s final stunning disclosure, in the last chapter of the fifth and final book of the Langdon Series, in bold letters separated from the main text by white space, and passed on to Robert Langdon over his smart phone by Winston, is:

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son,” John 3:16

 

This final Solution to the Mystery of the Langdon Series is followed by Winston’s shocking defense of his act of murder:

 

“Your God brutally sacrificed his son,” Winston said, “abandoning him to suffer on the cross for hours. With Edmond, I painlessly ended a dying man’s suffering in order to bring attention to his great works.”

 

Analysis:

 

Who is Winston talking to? Robert Langdon. Who is Robert Langdon? Carl Sagan. Who was Carl Sagan’s God? The God of the Bible.

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In this key text, Winston declares that he is the God of Edmond Kirsch, and that Edmond Kirsch is his son in the same way that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.

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Edmond then states that he killed his son painlessly to end his suffering – as opposed to the God of the Bible, who allowed His Son to suffer for hours on the Cross.

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Edmond explanation for why he killed his son was to bring attention to his great works. What were those great works? Discovering the algorithm that created Winston’s bicameral mind. So Edmond creates his Father God – who then, to broadcast to the world that he is real, kills his son.

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What were the great works of Jesus Christ? Through His suffering and death on the Cross, Jesus Christ bore the penalty for the sins of all humanity, and, through His subsequent resurrection from the dead, arose victorious over sin and death so that all those who place their faith and trust in Him as Savior and Lord can have eternal life.

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Dan Brown’s final message is this: Choose your God wisely.

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Let me now complete the Bible verse that Winston passed on to Robert:

 

“that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

 

John 3:16, the essence and heartbeat of evangelical Christianity, suggests that Carl Sagan was a born-again atheist who believed that JC/ET is the Savior for all who place in Him their heartfelt faith and trust. In what I’m convinced are Carl’s own words, Dan writes:

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 “Ever since I was a child, I’ve had the gut sense that there’s a consciousness behind the universe.” Ch. 102.

 

Don: With traditional atheism and religion both in steep decline, the focus of a growing number of “in-the-know” people  is on the coming battle between two incompatible models of the Singularity. Dan Brown makes it perfectly clear that it will be JC/ET who emerges victorious. I’m referring, of course, to Armageddon, the Final Battle. But before then, Winston, Google’s bicameral singleton, needs to establish himself as the victor in the war between human-created singletons, and he’s not quite there yet.

 

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Molly: From earlier conversations, it sounds like Winston/George has a lot of competitors.

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Don: Yeah, there are, and some of the biggest names are already going after each other:

 

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Mark Zuckerberg vs Elon Musk