Check out this World Science Festival event from NYU's Eisner & Lubin Auditorium, Saturday, June 4, 7:45 PM - 9:30 PM ET.

Human consciousness and intelligence are properties of the universe. From an anti-anthropocentric (less human-centered) view, humans are actually a subcomponent/extension of a "CPU." We, humans, are just quasi-intelligent, quasi-conscious, limited to our devices and the human point of view such as rampant literalism in our metaphors/illusions/symbolisms/religious experiences/equations/physico-chemical laws.

To the hardcore theists and old atheists, we have to disabuse ourselves of the old connotations of a "CPU" or god (especially the conceited, worship-demanding, human-male-looking god). [Pahtheistic/New Atheistic view]