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

By Ilia Delio | August 5, 2026

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...

“Become Conscious of Wholeness” by Edwin E. Olson

By WISR Institute | January 7, 2022

Become Conscious of Wholeness: Humanity’s Only Future by Edwin E. Olson (Author), Ilia Delio (Contributor) How can we transcend our tribal, philosophical, and religious differences? Is it possible to develop…

Epiphany: What Do We See?

By Ilia Delio | January 6, 2022

The name Epiphany comes from the Greek, epiphaneia, and means “appearance” or “manifestation.” The birth of Jesus is a theophany; God has appeared in the flesh, in the person of…

New Year’s Blog: Love, Hope and Future Life

By Ilia Delio | December 31, 2021

What a year this has been! A raging virus which continues to mutate, a volatile economy, the rise of the metaverse, the tornados of Kentucky, the wildfires of California, one…

Christmas: God Dawning in the Tenderness of the Flesh of the World.

By Br. Ivan Nicoletto | December 29, 2021

CHRISTMAS 2021 Isaiah 52:7-10; Hebrews 1:1-6; John 1:1-18 Christmas ecstasy of senses. God, dawning in the flesh, shattering the illusion of sovereignty, weakening our pretension of separation, slipping through the…

“Convergence”: C4C New Bi-Annual Publication

By WISR Institute | December 22, 2021

Convergence is a new teaching/educational publication which aims to deepen the understanding of the C4C’s vision at both the theological, sacramental/practical, and communal levels. There will be sections on theology,…

Christophany Groups: Pennsylvania

By WISR Institue | December 15, 2021

Our local Philly area Christophany group has been meeting since the spring of 2020. Early in 2021, we decided to meet on a monthly basis (we had been meeting twice…

Community Sharing – The Omega Tree

By WISR Institue | December 14, 2021

“Do you see what I see? A star, a star, dancing in the night with a tail as big as a kite, with a tail as big as a kite.”…

A Short Christmas Reflection

By Ilia Delio | December 14, 2021

Image credit: “Establishment of the Manger at Greccio”, Benozzo Gozzoli, 1452 + We moderns love Christmas with all the lights, gifts and good cheer of friends and family. It has…

Transhumanism: Transformation or Transfiguration? The Perspective of Ilia Delio

By WISR Institute | December 2, 2021

Transhumanism: Transformation or Transfiguration? The Perspective of Ilia Delio by Sister Carla Mae Streeter1 Articles on transhumanism abound in recent literature. Perspectives vary, from the naturalistic view that genetic manipulation…