Let’s start with Pascal’s wager. Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth-century French mathematician, famously figured that it was better to believe in God, on the off chance he was real, than to deny his existence and burn in hell for his doubts. Moral: At least conceive of the inconceivable, just in case it turns out to be true. As we enter the age of the Intertwingularity, everything from religious prophecies to global plots to existential collapse is on the table.
