What are the lyrics to “None of Them Knew They Were Robots” about?
The lyrics to “None of Them Knew They Were Robots” were written by Trey Spruance, who had the following to say about them: “I just want to clarify that reference to Omega Point in NOTKTWR does not make the song ‘about’ that subject. Tipler’s brand of scientific cryptotheology is just one of the elements taken into consideration in the song – I use it to help illustrate a point. Namely, that the reductionist tendency in physics/sciences springs from the same source as the worst religious Dogmatism. Gnostics would argue that both serve the Demiurgos, or False God – creator of the physical universe, who unwittingly conceals the True Hidden God while imagining himself to be The One. In any case, the reference to St. Augustine is not there to bash religion, but to help chart the linear history of where science and religion converge in their satanic pact (In the beginning was a Bang!). Most importantly, these images deal with the timeless tendency to overly-literalistic reductionism – how we
