“AI is intelligent but not conscious”. An intriguing invitation to hear a monk, steeped in knowledge of the ancient wisdom of the Upanishads, was irresistible. To hear him talk about AI made for an even more interesting evening, especially at…
Anthony Esolen on Sunday, November 8, 2026 The work of the human manager of the site, introducing Hopkins, was no better. I fear that though Western man may no longer heed the loving command in Genesis, “Increase and multiply,” stupidity does, and…
These days, it is nearly impossible to engage with any kind of technology without encountering AI. A Call to Preserve the Work of Being Human These days, it is nearly impossible to engage with any kind of technology without encountering…
Millions of people every year enter a state of temporary artificial unconsciousness courtesy of general anaesthetic. But the neural mechanisms behind anaesthetic drugs remain poorly understood. This open scientific question presents a unique opportunity to both study how the brain…
For a long time, science has achieved great success through a certain method. Dividing complex things into small parts, writing down the behavior of those parts in mathematical formulas, and stacking them up to explain the whole. This approach is…
Earlier this month on a Catholicism subreddit on Reddit, someone posted an image of the communion of the saints generated by one of the many online artificial intelligence art generators. It put me in mind of the wonderful article written…
And who was this spiritual sage? Not a priest, a preacher or a person at all. It was the A.I. text generator OpenAI Playground. We’ve been hearing a lot about artificial intelligence lately, its capacity to generate fascinating images or graduate-level…
Moral argumentation made a Google DeepMind model more decisive across three benchmarks, but the lab’s new paper found that the gain did not make the system more trustworthy because the model still bent under reframing and sycophancy after training. A…
The text analyzes the fundamental division between functional consciousness (information processing)... Tagged with functionalconsciousn, phenomenalconsciousn, qualia, searleschineseroom. The text analyzes the fundamental division between functional consciousness (information processing) and phenomenal consciousness (subjective feelings, so-called qualia). The author considers whether AI…
Precisely because I envision high ideals, the dissonance of reality is painfully jarring. Even if I attempt to persuade through logic, I am repelled by the wall of cognitive bias. That is why, without an experience that imprints the 'beauty…
The moral and spiritual questions AI raises: the Pope and the churches, consciousness and model welfare, ethics debates and what it means to be human.
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