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Intelligence Was Never the Point: Interior to Interiority in the Age of AI

From where I stand, we are having the wrong argument about artificial intelligence.The debate almost always runs along one axis. Can machines think? And if they can, what is left that belongs to us alone? For a long time, we did not have to ask the deeper question, because we had a comfortable answer to the surface one. We identified humanity with a set of distinctive capacities—reason, language, creativity, symbolic intelligence—and took these to define what it meant to be human. As long as those capacities remained uniquely ours, the question of personhood could stay politely closed. Intelligence seemed measure enough of human uniqueness.Artificial intelligence has unsettled that confidence. Machines now compose music, generate language, recognize patterns, and perform reasoning...
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Christophany Group Update: Australia and New Zealand

In our recent meetings we have been focusing on time at commencement of our meetings for some silent reflection in the style of Lectio Divina, choosing readings that relate to…

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About Kate Kristiansen

Kate Kristiansen has more than twenty years of experience in digital marketing, publicity, and brand sponsorship development. She has managed marketing for arts and community organizations, institutional banking, major live…

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The Risen Christ and the Power of Love

Image: Pysanky (Easter eggs), Kiev, Ukraine   It is day 45 of the Russian War against Ukraine. This evening I am reflecting on the atrocities inflicted upon the Ukrainian people…

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Fe en tiempos de guerra

“Fe en tiempos de guerra” “Faith in Time of War” by Ilia Delio translated by Juan V. Fernandez de la Gala En 1953, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin escribiĂł un ensayo…

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La Misa Sobre El Mundo (Mass On The World)

La Misa Sobre El Mundo – Mass On The World A Video adaptation of a Teilhard de Chardin text in Spanish with English subtitles Presented by Juan V. Fernández de…

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About Rebecca Mays (New Christophany Groups Coordinator)

Dear Christophany groups,   Hi! My name is Rebecca Mays and I am joyfully taking on the job of Christophany group coordinator.  I have been getting to know some of…

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Integrating the World Views of Science and Religion: Today’s Urgent Theological Challenge

Some of you may have seen Brian Cox’s magnificent recent series Universe, broadcast on BBC 4. The program on black holes was mind-bending, as Cox explained how all the workings…

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Faith in Time of War

In 1953, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin wrote an essay entitled, “The Agony of Our Age: A World That Is Asphyxiating,” in which he pointed out that after eons of slow…

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Lent: Poised for Action

Today we begin the season of Lent which has, traditionally, been a time of personal fasting, prayer and conversion.  While these three activities are good, they also reinforce the old…

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