Out of the Blue

Never heard of this guy before. Name of Michael Guillen. Sounds like I should have since he was a fixture for many years as a science editor at ABC News. Now he’s suddenly, spectacularly, in the news himself as the auteur of a solo AI-produced movie called “The Invisible Everywhere,” which debuts in theaters and on the Internet today.

Fascinating to me because he seems to have undergone a similar philosophical journey to my own from an approximately opposite direction. He was a science obsessive educated at two of the same universities I attended, Harvard and Cornell (plus UCLA) who was also a committed atheist. Science led him through a long intensely curious process to a devout belief in God and Christianity.

Obviously I haven’t seen the movie yet, but he made it in about a year with garden-variety AI applications on a desktop computer, during an intensive effort of hyper-focus that reminds me, in particular, of the making of Shuteye Town 1999. I’ve seen the trailer though, which identifies precisely the same questions that have obsessed me in my life. He’s a half dozen years younger than I am, so I’m making allowances.😎

Anyhow. Here’s the trailer. You’re the first one I’m sharing it with, although you won’t be the last by any means.

Interesting coincidence. Saw an interview in which he explained that official science has somewhat secretly come to accept a firm scientific basis for belief in the afterlife. It’s called “Persistence of Consciousness.” As it happens, the post that was supposed to be here today is halfway finished. Its title is “Persistence of Vision.” Maybe not today,but it will be published here soon…