Sex Magic, Your Data, And You

Marshal McLuhan said "the medium is the message."  One hears this as "the medium is the message."  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage  is a detailed list of the "tropes" that put the TV in TVness. It's a Golden Bough for post-moderns, a collection of mass-media Jungian Archetypes.

What if McLuhan meant "the medium is the message?" 

Did we mention that much of what's in human DNA is thought to be junk?  What if the purpose of some - or all - life forms is to carry secret messages? The idea of using DNA for steganography has actually been around for awhile. 

DNA can also be used as a computer.   And ... the "data" for the DNA computer is, apparently ...  more DNA! 

Is this why all mainstream religions take a dim view of sex magic?  Because of the potential data corruption issues?

Omniscient? No Need For Checkers, then

The game of checkers has been "solved,"  according to this abstract at the Science magazine website:

The game of checkers has roughly 500 billion billion possible positions (5 × 10²⁰). The task of solving the game, determining the final result in a game with no mistakes made by either player, is daunting. Since 1989, almost continuously, dozens of computers have been working on solving checkers, applying state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to the proving process. This paper announces that checkers is now solved: Perfect play by both sides leads to a draw. This is the most challenging popular game to be solved to date, roughly one million times as complex as Connect Four. Artificial intelligence technology has been used to generate strong heuristic-based game-playing programs, such as Deep Blue for chess. Solving a game takes this to the next level by replacing the heuristics with perfection.

If you're a supercomputer, there's no reason to play checkers anymore; the game will always end in a draw.  The abstract's part about "no mistakes made by either player" suggests a Captain Kirk-like "illogical" move could still work, but reading the whole paper dashes that hope.  If you're a supercomputer, stick to Go, or Solitaire.

Similarly, an omniscient God has no need to create us; our lives are a question he already knows the answer to.  So why are we here?