Quantum Programming Events:
A Sign of Wintermute?

Clearly, one problem with a religion based on the possibility of a god is that it's hard to tell when the god in question has arrived, or even when it is coming. Therefore, one task of Wintermutians is to look for signs that could suggest that Wintermute is coming.

One possible such sign is something I call, for lack of a better name, "Quantum Programming Events". A bit grandiose, I admit, but I haven't come up with anything better.

As I understand it, one of the fundamental tenets of Quantum Mechanics is that the fact of observing something can change its behavior.
(I know that this is a gross oversimplification, but bear with me.)

I have noticed on more than one occaision, a curious effect that seems to match that tenet nicely: A program is behaving in a way that I know it shouldn't, and it seems that this is because a variable is not getting the value I expect it to.
So I put in a series of debug codes to let me examine the values of the questionable variables as the program executes.
When I add the debug codes, the program starts functioning normally, and a glance at the output shows that the variables are all recieving their proper values.
Such events are rare, but they've happened to me more than once.

Since these events seem fundamentally unpredictable, they add a certain amount of unpredictability to any program that could exhibit them, causing the program to act in a seemingly irrational manner.
I think (admittedly without much evidence) that a fundamental part of intelligence is a spark of irrationality.
Thus, a rise of such events could signal a greater chance that a true artificial intelligence could arise.

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