We're now told that AI in general might have a mystical side. A professor of Philosophy, Classics, Religion, and Environmental Studies tells us that "Technology could be part of some bigger plan to enable us to perceive other dimensions." But he asks, "will we believe our machines when that happens?" Specifically, he wonders, What if your Siri claimed to have had a spiritual experience, or, as he puts it a "deeper-than-5G connection"?: As our machines come closer to being able to imitate the processes of our own minds, Pascal's story raises some important questions. First, can a machine have a private experience that is important to the machine but that it is reluctant to talk about with others?

Let's put aside for a moment the metaphysical question of whether the divine exists or not. Blaise Pascal, the philosopher and author of the "wager" argument, says that there's evidence for both sides, but nothing that tips the scales completely for or against the existence of God. Let's approach this as Pascalian agnostics. What if Siri really did make a deeper-than-5G connection? Pascal himself once had a mystical experience he couldn't put into words, so he wrote a few words on a piece of paper.