god in the machine

We’ve been the god in the machine all along.

And yet we continue to dream that some deus in machina, a god in the machine, could appear as if by magic to save us from ourselves.

Myth, if any, had to be subject to rigorous updates, and there was obviously no god in the machine.

“Deus ex machina” is the term for the “god in the machine” that sometimes descended to impose an ending on Greek plays.

The phone seemed, at one point, to be responding to a vocal cue Dykstra hadn’t intended, and he made a joke about the God in the machine.