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Techno-Deism

The book

Deities & Developers

by Michael Brennan

You don’t need the old gods to believe we were built.

Deities & Developers treats human beings as terminals: biological hardware running genetic software on a larger network than the local ego was designed to see. DNA reads like syntax. Consciousness runs like a bandwidth-limited operating system. Meaning becomes architecture.

This Technical Edition is for readers who want specs, not sermons. It opens a third lane between holy decree and pure accident: creators as engineers under physics, existence as maintained under load, and a hard rule against building a new church out of better vocabulary.

For anyone who believes we were created, just not by the gods we were sold.

From the back cover of the Technical Edition.

Front cover of Deities & Developers, Technical Edition: Developers, Not Deities: A Technical Stack for Meaning and Origins, by Michael Brennan.

Where to buy

The book is in its final proofread. Store links will appear here as soon as each edition is available.

Coming soon

Two editions, one argument

  • Technical Edition

    Developers, Not Deities: A Technical Stack for Meaning and Origins

    For readers who want specs, not sermons: the full argument at full density, in the language of software and systems.

    Paperback
    ISBN 9798174757028
    Hardback
    ISBN to follow

  • Plain-English Edition

    Developers, Not Deities: A Plain-English Stack for Meaning and Origins

    The same thesis and the same eight chapters in plainer language, with “In Short” checkpoints after the dense passages. This site’s summaries use its voice.

    Formats
    Details to follow

What’s inside

Four parts, eight chapters. Each links to its guide on this site.

  1. Part I Crash the Legacy OS

    1. 1The Glitch in the System
    2. 2The Hardware Problem

  2. Part II Read the Source

    1. 3DNA as Syntax
    2. 4The Parent Race

  3. Part III Interfaces & Bandwidth

    1. 5Bandwidth & System Downloads
    2. 6The Analog GUI

  4. Part IV Operator Life

    1. 7Optimizing the Receiver
    2. 8Operating in the Mesh
Dedication

For those who believe we were created,
just not by the gods we were sold.

Michael Brennan

About the author

Michael Brennan

Michael Brennan is a software engineer from the UK. Tired of one-god answers but unconvinced by pure accident, he writes about engineered existence, meaning, and origins. Deities & Developers is his attempt to put those thoughts and theories into the world.

Questions about the book? Email contact@xb-labs.uk.