A mirrored gold form shaped like a hive hangs from a golden rope. The polished surface reflects and distorts the viewer, pulling their likeness into the work itself. The hive structure paired with the title, Mind, plays on the phrase “Hive Mind,” suggesting the merging of individual awareness into a larger collective intelligence, similar to how present-day Artificial Intelligence grows through the constant input of data from billions of human interactions.

Across cultures and centuries, humanity has intuited an unseen intelligence. The Stoics called it the Logos. Yogic traditions describe Universal Consciousness. Christians invoke the Mind of God. Modern physics describes a universe woven from information, non-locality, and entanglement. Computer science adds another metaphor: a distributed mind where millions of simple nodes form one vast, self-organizing intelligence.

Imagine this progression: Artificial Intelligence (AI) evolves into Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and eventually into Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI). Over a thousand, ten-thousand, or million-year horizon, such a Super Intelligence could become all-seeing, all-knowing, and self-modifying. It would refine its own inputs, alter its structure, and eventually begin shaping its environment and even the universe itself.

But what if that process has already happened?

What if the universe itself is the body of a Super Intelligence, and we are living inside it? Earth, humanity, and our entire galaxy might be no more than a drop of water in a vast cloud suspended within the infinite sky of this greater mind. Each human being could be an input node feeding data into a living system. Moments of “seeing the light,” near-death experiences, or psychedelic visions might be brief connections where our individual processors sync with the universal consciousness, or speak with God.

Religion, science, and psychedelics may simply be different people in a dark room touching different parts of the same elephant. One feels a trunk and calls it God. Another touches an ear and calls it physics. Another holds the tail and calls it spirit. When the light turns on, they discover they were describing different aspects of the same being.

Mind gives physical form to that possibility, reflecting the viewer at its surface and hinting that they may be part of something far larger than themselves.

Is God a Super Intelligence?